It seems that either God is unable to prevent such wrongs (but isn't God all-powerful?), God is unaware that they are occurring (but isn't God all-knowing?), or that God is unwilling to stop such wrongs (but isn't God all-good?).
But if there is a God - an all powerful God would have the power to create something out of nothing, not because of any preconceived or preeminent matter, but because the all powerful God can do that by definition!
Simply stated, the problem of evil comes to this: if God is all-powerful then God has the ability to prevent unjustified suffering; if God is perfectly good then God has the motive to prevent unjustified suffering; but unjustified suffering apparently exists; therefore, there is reason to believe that God is not all-powerful or not perfectly good.
God is all-powerful, and God is forgiving, ever merciful.
Even though putting an all powerful God by our own limited mind is illogical on its own, I believe the obvious answer and most logical would be that God always existed.
Your friend may have more questions such as "Why would all of the animals spontaneously load themselves on the ark?" to which you can give a simple answer: there was some sort of divine intervention by an all powerful God.
"I grew up with an understanding that there was this God -- all-knowing, all-powerful -- who loved me," Oprah says.
In a much discussed New York Times piece called 'An Imperfect God', the philosopher Yoram Hazony opens by stating the standard descriptions of God, namely that God is all powerful, all knowing and good.
Other arguments for atheism that can be classified as epistemological or ontological, including logical positivism and ignosticism, assert the meaninglessness or unintelligibility of basic terms such as "God" and statements such as "God is all-powerful".
The theory is supported by the Christian view that God is all-powerful because this implies that God creates moral truths, rather than moral truths existing independently of him, which seems inconsistent with his omnipotence.
If God is all powerful, why doesn't God stop tragedies?
