The Existence of Evil and God In this paper I will argue that the existence of evil does not prove that a God does not exist. For many people the existence of evil and suffering is their number one objection to the existence of God. At times the evil that we see is so pointless. The evil in our world is of such an unspeakable nature that it is difficult at times to fathom what possible purpose could it serve. It is difficult for us to understand why God would allow some things to happen‚
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bad things. There are the natural evils of the world like illness‚ hurricanes‚ tsunamis‚ earthquakes. There are the evils humans commit against one another like murder‚ abuse‚ and all sorts of betrayals. Evil leads humans to question the power of God and even the existence of God. God is supposed to be powerful. He is supposed to help us. He is supposed to answer our prayers. People struggle with this because sometimes the evil gets too much to handle. When evil occurs it causes us pain‚ hurt‚ and
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torn apart by the people and concatenations in Candide’s journey. Candide encounters many issues with corrupt and hypocritical religious leaders performing profound acts according to their religions. These flaws in religion are evident in the problem of evil‚ which suggests that god does not really exist. Through the characters‚
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The problem arises when Christians experience evil and sin; those that have prayed for healing and rescue question why God has not answered their cries for help (Sharpe ). Throughout the bible there are many reasons why God allows Christian to suffer‚ many which teaches
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why there is evil in the world‚ is greatly influenced by the Bible’s creation stories‚ Genesis 1-3‚ which he took literally. Augustine believed‚ that God had made the world ex nihilo (out of nothing) and when making the world he had made it free from flaws. He believed very strongly that God is good‚ omnipotent and omniscience. As he had a traditional view of God it created a problem that he had to solve‚ if God is good and he is omnipotent and He created the world‚ why is there evil in it? He solves
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be discussed and Mackie’s response to it is the claim that ‘evil is due to human free will’ and as such it cannot be attributed to God. Evil should instead be attributed to the free actions of individuals‚ the power of which has been endowed upon them by God. While it is acknowledged that there exists evil in the world‚ as a result of some human free will‚ it is claimed that freedom of will is a more valuable good than any resultant evil. Through God allowing such freedom‚ He has satisfied His ‘wholly
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Philosophy 116 O’Connor November 13 2014 Patrick Johnson The Problem of Evil I would like to do chapter III for the remainder of the semester because it’s an extension of what we have already done in this course. Our class has previously discussed the problem of evil when examining goodness‚ one of God’s essential attributes discussed in chapter I and other readings. Therefore‚ we’ll have some prior knowledge when revisiting this issue. Studying chapter III will also be beneficial
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The problem of evil is that if God exists then he should know to prevent all evil doings. If this God existed then we would want him to prevent all of the evil doing in the world. War‚ rape‚ and murder are examples that have not been prevented and still are ongoing today. The argument claims then that there is no such God. I think the problem of evil exists because it exists for a certain kind of good meaning every bad thing
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The problem of evil as stated from Mackie’s perspective is that it challenges the idea of God and his characteristics of omnipotence‚ omniscient and omni-benevolence. He says that if such a being exist why it would let bad things happen to innocent‚ good people and in the world in general? Mackie propones the use of deductive logic to conclude that God does not exist because if he would exist he would stop evil‚ his position is stated as the logical problem of evil. The construction of his arguments
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to the evidential problem of evil. As such‚ it attempts to explain the probability of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent (or all-powerful and perfectly loving) God amid evidence of evil in the world. A number of variations of this kind of theodicy have been proposed throughout history‚ but their similarities were first described by John Hick‚ who classified them as Augustinian. They typically assert that God is perfectly good‚ that he created the world out of nothing‚ and that evil is the result of
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