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*7. Or God could have given us the ability to choose, and alternatives to chose from, with the ability to effect others and things by our choices, and reward or punishment us according, especially ultimately, while making the evil we do to work out for good of those who want good, and love God who is good.  

*7. Or God could have given us the ability to choose, and alternatives to chose from, with the ability to effect others and things by our choices, and reward or punishment us according, especially ultimately, while making the evil we do to work out for good of those who want good, and love God who is good.  

Non-Christian attempts to resolve this problem range from denying the omnipotence and or omniscience of God, to denying the reality of evil, to making God consist of a dual nature. However, the Bible upholds that God is both almighty and all-knowing, and of a consistent character, and that evil does exist as a reality, and is in opposition to the character of God. 

==Specific Christian attempts==

Christian responses include the [[Arminian]] position that argues that evil is a consequence of God giving man freedom to choose, and that, if choice means anything, man must have something to choose from, this being turning away from the good to do the opposite. As angels or man have chosen to do evil, this results in suffering.  While God knows what man will do, that is not the same not as ordaining or or decreeing it.   

Christian responses include the [[Arminian]] position that argues that evil is a consequence of God giving man freedom to choose, and that, if choice means anything, man must have something to choose from, this being turning away from the good to do the opposite. As angels or man have chosen to do evil, this results in suffering.  While God knows what man will do, that is not the same not as ordaining or or decreeing it.   

Others, however, object to the further conclusions of Calvinism related to this.<ref>http://www.gospeltruth.net/foster_on_cal/otc_2.htm</ref> While Armianism believes God has the right and the ability to ultimately determine all things, it seeks to reconcile the actions of God concerning the basis for the [[predestination]] of the lost with God's own statements about justice, (Dt. 24:16; etc.) while the Calvinist tends to appeal to God's sovereign right to do as He pleases, as Scripture does, (Rom. 11:20) in which not all things are revealed. (Dt. 29:29)

Others, however, object to the further conclusions of Calvinism related to this.<ref>http://www.gospeltruth.net/foster_on_cal/otc_2.htm</ref> While Armianism believes God has the right and the ability to ultimately determine all things, it seeks to reconcile the actions of God concerning the basis for the [[predestination]] of the lost with God's own statements about justice, (Dt. 24:16; etc.) while the Calvinist tends to appeal to God's sovereign right to do as He pleases, as Scripture does, (Rom. 11:20) in which not all things are revealed. (Dt. 29:29)

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