A bit of Christian Apologetics!!

I received a message with "an arguments against the existence of God" from my close friend (19 y. o).

Could you please help me with a good response, because "but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you" - PETER 3:15



 [COPIED MESSAGE FROM MY FRIEND]

1. If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect.

2. If God is omnipotent, then God has the power to eliminate all evil.

3. If God is omniscient, then God knows when evil exists.

4. If God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil.

5. Evil exists.

6. If evil exists and God exists, then either God doesn’t have the power to eliminate all evil, or doesn’t know when evil exists, or doesn’t have the desire to eliminate all evil.

7. Therefore, God doesn’t exist.



 [MY RESPONSE]
Recognizing evil itself recognizes an all-moral standard outside of our system (God)


I agree with everything until premise 7, which seems to be a wrong conclusion:

God doesn't want to eliminate all Evil (6), because he is morally perfect (4) and the Evil is people whom a morally perfect Creator loves. There's one way to fulfill both desires of a morally perfect God - avoid eliminating Evil (people) and remaining perfect:

Take the punishment on himself. This way justice isn't broken and people are saved.

The Theistic idea of Christianity teaches exactly this. Therefore, the Evil argument doesn't only prove that there is a God, but He is namely the Christian God.

Also there's one contradiction: the speaker must be absolutely objective and actually omniscient to say that the natural 'evil' is actually evil.
In other words, I don't know why a storm has killed a man, but I do know why I don't know why - because God is absolutely moral, absolutely all-knowing, absolutely all-powerful — while I am NOT!




But you know, my last and major argument for most of the things you send -

This argument is almost 1000 years old!
God is experiential. Either you know him or you dont.
It is a waste of time arguing with someone who does not have the experience of God. God is above all human intellect, He made human intellect. Creation cannot understand the Creator. It is all a question of humility. If you have humility, you will have the experience of God, if not....

Thank you Father Andrew of Colchester for the last paragraph!