&gt; The fact that he didn&#x27;t means he&#x27;s either not omnipotent or not omnibenevolent (a contradiction for those who ascribe both properties to god).<p>This doesn&#x27;t really follow. We are creative so we could come up with infinite amounts of nonsense questions that are really logical paradoxes and not real objections. Why can&#x27;t God create something so heavy that he can&#x27;t move it? The question of why a loving God allows evil is in that same category if you believe:
 - love requires free will
 - free will requires choices
 - meaningful choices require evil to be an available choice<p>There are probably other formulations of how love requires the option of rejection and how evil follows from there. But the point is that they turn the contradiction between omnipotence and omnibenevolence into a paradox in the same category as &quot;could God grow a mustache so great that he himself could not shave it?&quot;<p>It stands to reason, then that the job of the objectors is to show that it&#x27;s possible to love meaningfully without free will, really. And if you don&#x27;t believe in objective morality, it&#x27;s hard to argue what love is and isn&#x27;t.<p>Or do I misunderstand and you care to elaborate?