Do theodicies explain why God allows evil in the world?

The only explanation for evil is that there is no God

Question: Do theodicies explain why God allows evil in the world?
Position‹5 of 5: No, the opposite: the existence of evil disproves the existence of God
Argument: The only explanation for evil is that there is no God

The existence of evil is fundamentally incompatible with the existence of God.

The argument

Proponents of this argument hold that the traditional properties ascribed to God — being all-powerful, all-knowing, and wholly good — are not merely in tension with the evil in the world but logically inconsistent with it. Each attribute plays a distinct role in generating the contradiction. An all-knowing being would be aware of every evil that occurs or is about to occur; an all-powerful being would be able to prevent any evil it knew of; and a wholly good being would want to prevent evil wherever it could. A being possessing all three attributes at once would therefore prevent all evil, without exception. On this view, if such a God existed, there would be no evil in the world at all. The argument then proceeds deductively. If God exists, there would be no evil in the world; there is evil in the world; therefore, God does not exist. Advocates stress that this is not a claim that evil merely counts as evidence against God, or that God's existence is improbable. It is the stronger claim that the propositions "God exists" and "evil exists" cannot both be true, so that the plain fact of evil settles the matter by itself. This is why, on this view, theodicies cannot succeed even in principle. A theodicy attempts to explain why God allows evil, but if the divine attributes genuinely entail the prevention of all evil, then there is nothing coherent for a theodicy to explain: no reason could reconcile a wholly good, all-powerful, all-knowing being with a world containing evil. The only explanation left standing for the evil we observe, proponents conclude, is that no such God exists — the existence of evil disproves the existence of God.

Context

Benevolence, omnipotence, omniscience, and existence are all predicates of God. If God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good, then God must have the ability to eliminate evil. The fact evil exists demonstrates that God cannot exist as an omnipotent, benevolent force.

Premises

[P1]God is defined as all-powerful, all-knowing and wholly good. [P2] Such a being would prevent evil, so if God existed there would be no evil in the world. [P3] Yet evil plainly exists. [C] Therefore, the existence of evil disproves the existence of God.

Counter-arguments

This interpretation of evil and the existence of God assumes that the accuser is an infallible moral observer. To assert that evil exists and that this evil is in direct contrast to God’s benevolence is to say: “I am morally qualified to assess God is flawed”. Nobody is in a position to make this assertion. Nobody is morally objective or omniscient to be able to categorically point to an incident of “evil” and say with infallibility that the act is objectively and morally evil.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P5] To conclude with certainty that evil exists would require someone with infallible moral judgment to confirm its existence. Nobody is qualified to make that assertion.