on bright hilltops and dark valleys. He then quoted Augustine, “Evil exists only in good.”9 Evil cannot wholly consume the good, but serves the good of the whole. Again he quoted Augustine, “There is no possible source of evil except good.”10 Our universe enjoys light and shade, and life and death.11 In turn, this is related to the claim of Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716), who produced a theodicy in terms of a series of logical syllogisms.12 He concluded that God had created “the best possible world.”
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