Editing Problem of evil (section)

===Omni-qualities===
[[Omniscience]] is "maximal knowledge".<ref name="Wierenga">{{cite web|last=Wierenga|first=Edward|title=Omniscience|publisher=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|year=2020|editor-last=Zalta|editor-first=Edward N.|url = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/omniscience/|access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref> According to Edward Wierenga, a classics scholar and doctor of philosophy and religion at the University of Massachusetts, ''maximal'' is not unlimited but limited to "God knowing what is knowable".<ref name="Wierenga1989">{{cite book |last1=Wierenga |first1=Edward R. |title=The Nature of God: An Inquiry Into Divine Attributes |date=1989 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=9780801488504 |pages=202–205}}</ref>{{rp|25}} This is the most widely accepted view of omniscience among scholars of the twenty-first century, and is what [[William Hasker]] calls ''freewill-theism''. Within this view, future events that depend upon choices made by individuals with free will are unknowable until they occur.<ref name="Hasker omniscience">{{cite book |last1=Hasker |first1=William |title=Providence, Evil and the Openness of God |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415329491}}</ref>{{rp|104; 137}}<ref name="Wierenga"/>{{rp|18–20}}

[[Omnipotence]] is maximal power to bring about events within the limits of possibility, but again ''maximal'' is not unlimited.<ref name="Hoffman and Rosenkrantz">{{cite web |last1=Hoffman |first1=Joshua |last2=Rosenkrantz |first2=Gary |title=Omnipotence |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/omnipotence/ |website=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref>  According to the philosophers Hoffman and Rosenkrantz: "An omnipotent agent is not required to bring about an impossible state of affairs... maximal power has logical and temporal limitations, including the limitation that an omnipotent agent cannot bring about, i.e., cause, another agent's free decision".<ref name="Hoffman and Rosenkrantz"/>

[[Omnibenevolence]] sees God as all-loving. If God is omnibenevolent, he acts according to what is [[wikt:best|best]], but if there is no best available, God attempts, if possible, to bring about states of affairs that are creatable and are optimal within the limitations of physical reality.<ref name="Haji">{{cite journal |last1=Haji |first1=Ishtiyaque |title=A Conundrum Concerning Creation |journal=Sophia |date=2009 |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1007/s11841-008-0062-7 |s2cid=144025073 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/203892905|id={{ProQuest|203892905}} }}</ref>