God can be God without being all three of the following: all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I think that the third point is the wobbliest one to try and base arguments about God off of, because while God is omnibenevolent, His referent is not me or any other person and He considers factors that are beyond human comprehension and fundamentally unknowable to us. He takes a deep interest in each individual person's welfare, but how His love for us manifests may be surprising.

     A radical notion that was suggested to me recently was that in some instances God might elect to smite someone as an act of kindness, because if they were allowed to live they might invite condemnation upon themselves. I heard an Orthodox Christian hypothesize this about Thomas Aquinas; he died before he was supposed to go to the Council of Lyons, and the claim is that God willed this so he could die in ignorance of the Orthodox belief and not be judged for having rejected it. While I disagree with certain points there (and I know my Roman Catholic friends will disagree with certain other points!), the supposition that God could do something like that for someone's benefit defies what a lot of us would typically associate as being omnibenevolent behavior. Yet it is sometimes logical for Him to act this way if His intention is to save the soul of one who is about to fall into a condemnation that that person will not repent from.