Name Professor Subject Date Evil and the Paradox of Omnipotence John Leslie Mackie , in his article “Evil and Omnipotence ‘ states that the problem of evil is clearly stated using three essential parts of most theological positions , namely (a ) that God is omnipotent (b ) that God is wholly good and (c ) that evil exists . Mackie also stated two additional principles that are commonly assumed in debating the problem of evil . They include (a ) “that good is opposed to evil , in such a way that a good thing always eliminates evil as far as it can ‘ and (b )“that there are no limits to what an omnipotent thing can do (Mackie 90 .Mackie explained that accepting the propositions stated above leads to the problem of evil . The propositions are contradictory to each other .Given the arguments above , a good and omnipotent being will eliminate evil completely . The existence of a good and omnipotent being and the existence of evil are absolutely contradictory . An adequate solution to the problem would be to accept that at least one of these propositions is false . Mackie explained that some solutions being offered are inadequate or fallacious in that they explicitly maintain all , but implicitly reject at least one of the constituent propositions – that is , at least one of the propositions appears to have been given up but is actually retained in such a way that it is reasserted in another context without further qualification .One of these fallacious solutions state that “good cannot exits without evil…