[Loolasant]

1. If God is all powerful, then he doesn't need to use a means to achieve a goal. He doesn't need to make someone suffer to "elevate his status", but he chooses to.

2. Simply claiming that it's clear doesn't make it so. The last 2 verses of takweer only clarify one side of the issue.

If it were all so simple, we wouldn't have had people trying to answer the problem for centuries.

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