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    Leibniz developed the idea of Theodicy to conditionally justify God in response to the question of why God does not wish to end suffering in the world. There are only four possible responses to this question - that God either can and does not want to end suffering, can and does want to end it, cannot end it and does not want to, or can end it but wants to - however none of these options adequately explain the existence of evil in the world without contradicting the notion of an all-powerful, all-good God.

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    Leibniz developed the idea of Theodicy to conditionally justify God in response to the question of why God does not wish to end suffering in the world. There are only four possible responses to this question - that God either can and does not want to end suffering, can and does want to end it, cannot end it and does not want to, or can end it but wants to - however none of these options adequately explain the existence of evil in the world without contradicting the notion of an all-powerful, all-good God.

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    Leibniz developed the idea of Theodicy to conditionally justify God in response to the question of why God does not wish to end suffering in the world. There are only four possible responses to this question - that God either can and does not want to end suffering, can and does want to end it, cannot end it and does not want to, or can end it but wants to - however none of these options adequately explain the existence of evil in the world without contradicting the notion of an all-powerful, all-good God.

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    The Theodicy: The Attempt to Vindicate God

    This idea was developed by Leibniz to conditionally


    "justify" God. The major query raised by this idea is: Why
    does God not wish to end suffering in the world? There are
    only four viable responses: either God can and does not
    want to, or he can and does want to, or he cannot and does
    not want to, or he can and does want to. The last option does
    not adequately explain why evil exists in the world, and the
    previous three do not fit with the notion of God as the
    Absolute.

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