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>he isn't a monotheist

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>>Yet, he allows evils such as suffering and illnesses
Those aren't evils, they are undesirable consequences of evil. Slight difference.
Evils are things like committing murder, rape, torture, homosex, lying, stealing, fornicating, etc.
God allows such evils temporarily in order to allow man to return to his original and pure state, which he has fallen from. If God didn't allow these things to happen man would not be redeemable, for God wants authentic love, authentic virtue and authentic humility from his creations.

>Why can't he just make us strong and virtuous from the beginning?
Adam and Eve were GOOD, but they also had freedom and eventually they abused that freedom and so we face the consequences of the fall.

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>>10217850
God is not flesh/matter/contingent. Thus reason can't grasp him so simply.
God is spirit and apprehended through faith by the pure of heart. Even when he incarnated on earth and taught people the most sublime doctrine and worked miracles the skeptics attributed it to dark magic.
Modern day skeptics would sooner believe Gabriel was an alien or science experiment than an angel delivering a divine message.