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Originally Posted by capco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Let's assume God exists, and that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.

-An omnibenevolent being would want to prevent all evils.
-An omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence, and knows every way in which those evils could be prevented.
-An omnipotent being has the power to prevent that evil from coming into existence.
-A being who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, who is able to prevent that evil from coming into existence, and who wants to do so, would prevent the existence of that evil.
-If there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God, then no evil exists.

However, there is evil in the world.

Therefore, an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God does not exist.

That's been tried before:

The Architect was constructed by other machines in a human image to understand the nature of humans. He created the first Matrix as a utopia for the humans whose minds inhabited it to keep them subdued while their body heat was used as energy by the Machines. However, the human minds rejected this first attempt as a perfect world and beta 1 of the Matrix crashed.