What is the inconsistent triad?

Key Terms: Omnipotent: all-powerful, God can do anything. Omnibenevolent: all-loving, God loves everybody and everything. Evil: a cause of human suffering Natural evil: evil/suffering caused by nature Moral evil: evil/suffering caused by people Evil seems to exist in the world. For example, think about natural evil such as earthquakes which kill people and/or destroy their homes or moral evil such as murder. Christians say that God is all-loving (omniscient) and all-powerful (omnipotent). However, many people say that God cannot be omnipotent and omnibenevolent because evil exists. Firstly, they say that God cannot be omnipotent because if God really could do anything then he would have stopped evil, but he has not. Secondly, they say that God cannot be omnibenevolent because if he loved us all he would stop evil and he has not. This is known as the 'inconsistent triad' because it contains 3 statements (tri means three) and the statements are logically inconsistent (they cannot all be true). Either evil does not exist, God is not omnipotent or God is not omnibenevolent. Evil does exist so it follows that God is either not omnipotent or God is not omnibenevolent.