William Rowe Theory Of Evil
Evil is here amongst us on earth. Why is it here? Who put evil here and what was it’s purpose here on earth? If God is omnipotent, omniscient, and a wholly good being then is he really the master architect behind the creation of this world? But honestly lets touch some fundamentals first. What is evil? What is good? The idea of orthodox theism is that God is portrayed as a person and or being like a person. They also convey God as being the perfect being and that God is the greatest being possible or at least ensuring that people know that God will be the top being and no other being will be created greater than him.
Now they did list at least ten different reasons on why God is so almighty and powerful. I will simple list them and not go …show more content…
James thought that this idea was the strongest, clearest, and easily understood theory. Rowe states that suffering is omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without losing the whole greater good aspect so not let evil permit equally bad or worse A wholly being God should prevent intense suffering from occurring without losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse. There is no omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good being, This contradicts the idea of the feel logical premise this is a belief about God being a perfectly good being that would do under certain circumstances. This means that God no that intense suffering is about to happen and Ben would prevent it but could not prevented if he is losing some sort of greater good or permitting some equally evil act itself because a whole good God would not permit evil acts to …show more content…
Rowe does not claim to know or be able to prove that cases of intense suffering pointless. He gives example of how an omnipotent being and omniscient being can out weigh situations that will be justified to whether who is more likely to not impact us directly and impact a lesser population instead us directly. One must simply outweigh the lesser of the two evils and determine which will be a better option for the community
Now they did list at least ten different reasons on why God is so almighty and powerful. I will simple list them and not go …show more content…
James thought that this idea was the strongest, clearest, and easily understood theory. Rowe states that suffering is omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without losing the whole greater good aspect so not let evil permit equally bad or worse A wholly being God should prevent intense suffering from occurring without losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse. There is no omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good being, This contradicts the idea of the feel logical premise this is a belief about God being a perfectly good being that would do under certain circumstances. This means that God no that intense suffering is about to happen and Ben would prevent it but could not prevented if he is losing some sort of greater good or permitting some equally evil act itself because a whole good God would not permit evil acts to …show more content…
Rowe does not claim to know or be able to prove that cases of intense suffering pointless. He gives example of how an omnipotent being and omniscient being can out weigh situations that will be justified to whether who is more likely to not impact us directly and impact a lesser population instead us directly. One must simply outweigh the lesser of the two evils and determine which will be a better option for the community