Vaux, I'm pulling your question from the other thread here. Lets continue all discussion here. I don't multi-task well. As per the idea of evil, evil is, per Augustine the Greater, the absence of good. So it is impossible to conceive of evil existing as such, but rather, not existing, which, per Anselm, is not as beneficial a trait as existence. A world w/o a being w/ the 3 omnis would be a mess. Humans can barely follow legal & moral codes now, most of which were based on religious mandate. Imagine that mandate not existing? Of course, you'll say that religious law doesn't prove God's existence. I agree. But it shows that men have thought these matters through that were usually smarter than us. Forgive me. I'm feeling poorly & must rest. I'll be back later. NOTE: Jews don't believe in Hell.