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The Cathars were a major branch of Christianity who solved this by the realization that God was the Devil and that the entire world was created by the Devil to torment humans in an endless cycle of reincarnated human spirits, which explained not only the problem of evil, but why God was evidently such a dick in scripture. Jesus was a messenger sent by the real God to show a way for human spirits to get out of the Devil's realm. Because of this, they had some interesting ramifications stemming from this, like procreation was a source of evil because you were bringing humans into a world to suffer the devil's handiwork, and suicide wasn't a mortal sin. At one point, they were so widespread that the word "heretic" without context was assumed to refer to them. Eventually, the Catholic Church held a Crusade against them and killed half a million or so and converted most of the rest at the point of a sword, and they never recovered. Anyhow, although I've never investigated, I bet they have some major arguments/treatises concerning this, although much of their written work was lost during their expungement/inquisition.