| The omnibenevolent God, by definition, was unable to withhold forgiveness from his people. |
| For example, they may contend that reason alone can settle that God does not exist, perhaps by arguing that the very notion of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent being is contradictory. |
| An omnibenevolent God would desire to halt or prevent it, and an omnipotent God should be able to do so. |
| By contrast, the Canon of the First Critique advances a conception of God as omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. |
| Although McTaggart's definition requires that God be a person in the philosophical sense, it neither requires that God be omnipotent nor requires that God be omnibenevolent. |
| In particular, it invites the theist to explain how a being that is omniscient, omnibenevolent, and omnipotent can allow evil to exist. |
