Justifying the Ways of God to Man

In Paradise Lost, Milton attempts to justify the ways of God to man. One of the arguments he must have considered runs as follows

1. God is perfectly good
2. God is omnipotent
3. Evil exists

ergo: God does not exist

(in logic, if it can be shown that any assertion is incorrect or incompatible with any of the other assertions upon which an argument is based, the conclusion must also be false).

In the argument above, if God is all-powerful, but does not choose to get rid of evil, then he cannot be perfectly good; if God is perfectly good, but he is not able to rid the world of evil, he is not omnipotent. In either case, philosophers have argued, God--at least an omnipotent, perfectly loving one--is not compatible with the assertion that evil exists.

What do you think? How well does Milton do in dealing with this argument in Paradise Lost?

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I was considering writing about Milton's attempt to reveal to the
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