(consistently) if one resists some common assumptions. What some label ‘metaphysical evil’, meaning being subject to limitations or lacking the fullness of being which is God’s (‘imperfection’ may be used), is obviously no evil if all evil is restricted to sin and the consequences of sin. This restriction removes the acuteness of evil, since in judging evil, the fact of being limited in any way (like humankind not having an elephant’s strength or eyes all around the head) will appear to most an arbitrary