I don't think it's a good challenge for reasons set out by C. S. Lewis. It's a Christian idea that there really is no such thing as evil, in and of itself. All evil is just perverted good, or going about good the wrong way. So that would mean there has to be, initially, something good to pervert. You can't have a perversion of something that doesn't exist, as you can't have something "abnormal" without first having the "normal" for it to be compared to. That would mean the First Cause, or Prime Mover, or God, would have to be good. Good is the original state of things in the Christian view.It's a good challenge, isn't it? If there's no way to show that it's more likely for the creator of the universe to be good than evil, is it even fair to call it "faith"? Instead of saying something like, "I have faith that God is good", wouldn't it be more accurate to say, "I hope God is good"? Which isn't entirely without Biblical basis: "share the reason for the hope in our hearts" and all that.
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