Divine Omnipotence, Divine Sovereignty and Moral Constraints on the Prevention of Evil: A Reply to Sterba

In Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba uses the analogy of just political state to develop evil-prevention principles he thinks good would follow. With assumption that is omnipotent, these entail never permit free agents bring about horrendous evil. But routinely succeed in doing so: entailing logical incompatibility between world’s evils and existence good, omnipotent God. I challenge this conclusion by sketching two ways divine omnipotence arguably entails face moral constraints on prevention evil human states do not. If my account sound, be morally precluded from functioning as sovereign governing authority manner states. correct, Sterba’s arguments might taken show, not there contradiction almighty God, but common theistic belief such ruler world.