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Still, some helpful points are available to the theist.
Several different strategies are available to the theist to defuse this problem — that is, theodicies of various kinds.
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It isn't available to non-Christian theists, however, and fails to locate compassion in the divine nature itself.
These features evidently apply to the theist hypothesis – especially to the thin version, where the idea involved is both wholly obscure and incomprehensible.
Your goal should not be to deconvert the theist.
To avoid this, the theist might say that to call God the "cause" is to say that God is the original cause of creation.
Being a black atheist also makes them an anomaly to the black theist majority.
Try to make sure that the theist does not try to attach any other definitions to the word as it does not apply.
In particular, it invites the theist to explain how a being that is omniscient, omnibenevolent, and omnipotent can allow evil to exist.
It is difficult for the theist to give a fully satisfying answer at this point.
If, on the contrary, the theist has to claim that the First Cause had to do what it did, would not the cosmos be necessary rather than contingent?
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