Evil can be characterized as or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; being unfortunate or disastrous. The presence of evil and suffering in our reality appears to present the argument of the existence of an immaculate God. In other words, the conclusion of the Basic Argument is that God doesn’t exist. If the conclusion is true, then perhaps the problem of evil is caused by human moral agents, not the deity or God. The conclusion matters if we want to understand why innocent people suffer.
1. If God exists, then God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and good.
2. If God is all-powerful, then She can prevent innocent people from suffering.
3. If God is all-knowing, then She would know when innocent people are suffering.
4. If God is good, then She would be willing to prevent innocent people from suffering.
5. Innocent people suffer.
6. If God exists and innocent people suffer, then: She can’t prevent innocent people from suffering, or She doesn’t know when innocent people are suffering, or She is not willing to prevent innocent
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This means that if God is all-powerful, he would be able to prevent all of the evil and suffering in the world. If God is all-knowing, he would know about all of the evil and suffering in the world and would know how to eliminate or prevent it. Finally, if God is perfectly good, he would want to prevent all of the evil and suffering in the world. For example, Casey’s mom was diagnosed with cancer and has only couple months left to live. If god exists, and she is all-powerful, he would be able to prevent Casey’s mom from suffering from her cancer. If god is all-knowing, then she would know that Casey’s mom was suffering. And if god was all good, then she would be willing to prevent Casey’s mom from suffering from cancer. Premise (1) claims that if god exists, then god is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all good. Therefor, Casey’s mom would not
no God in Heaven”(243) and “my god, why have you forsaken me,”(244) because he views
The Question of God is divided into two parts. The first part, titled: “What Should We Believe” seeks to answer the first half of the questio...
Either element of the conclusion is damaging to the traditional understanding of a Judeo-Christian God. It seems simple enough. A benevolent Creator appears incompatible with what we understand to be the existence of evil. Evil is opposed to God’s will, eventually cumulating in the crucifixion of God’s son, Jesus. One must then wonder how an all-loving and all-powerful God would allow such pain to occur to both his creation and Jesus. A perfect God’s world should be similarly perfect. The world is not perfect so it seems that God must not be all-loving or He must not be all-powerful. Rejecting the existence of evil, immediately rejects too much of the Judeo-Christian tradition to be considered, though some philosophers have considered it.
Throughout the world, most people believe in some type of god or gods, and the majority of them understand God as all-good, all-knowing (omniscient), and all-powerful (omnipotent). However, there is a major objection to the latter belief: the “problem of evil” (P.O.E.) argument. According to this theory, God’s existence is unlikely, if not illogical, because a good, omniscient, and omnipotent being would not allow unnecessary suffering, of which there are enormous amounts.
There is so much evil in the world such as: murder, child mortality, torture, rape, assault and more. So how can there be an all loving God if these things are constantly happening? In this paper, I will be arguing that there is in fact no such thing as an all loving and all powerful God due to Evil. When I think of an all-loving God, I think of God as someone who would never allow a child to be kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed. I think of God as someone who would not allow anything bad or evil to happen in this world.
The Problem of Evil is the question that asks if God is perfectly benevolent, all-powerful, and all-knowing, then how can he allow evil to exist? Many philosophers have tried to answer this age-old question, often focusing on the intellect and the will. This essay will explore and compare the ways in which Descartes, Leibniz, and Berkeley each attempt to solve this dilemma.
Opponents of God’s existence argue if an all-knowing and good god exists, why is there such an abundance of evil in the world.
A consequentialist response to Alyosha's refusal to consent to trade the suffering and death of one innocent in exchange for universal harmony is that, in the present inharmonious order, many innocent children will die horribly, not just one. Alyosha's tender conscience will cost thousands of innocent children their lives. And so the debate continues.
Philosophers of the Medieval period struggled with the problem of evil - specifically, the existence of evil brought a question to the fore: if the world was created by an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God, then how was it that evil existed? To further complicate the matter, a second question branched off of the first as individuals pondered over whether or not God was ultimately the cause of evil. If God created everything, and evil exists as part of everything, then God, logically, had created evil. But this presented yet another issue, in that if God had knowingly created evil, then he could not truly be all-good. And it is these concerns that philosophers addressed.
want to end all of the suffering that occurs in the world, just as an
a. People in accidents, people with cancer, people having surgery and women having babies are saved
First we must ask the question is God able to eradicate all evil. If no, then he is not omnipotent and thus there is no God. If yes, then we ask is God willing to eradicate all evil. If no, then God is not Omnibenevolent and thus there is no God. If yes, then we ask why does God allow evil to still be present in the
B. Unconditional Election God has chosen some for salvation and some to be condemned. Whether or not one is predestinated for salvation can not be affectet by oneself. Its not because of what one has done or not done, there is no reason for the predestination and no possibility to change the own status.
We should think about if the fact of evil counts against the existence of God. I think that evil and good must be present because the people that are evil and have fun at others expenses will pay after they die, and the people who are good and get persecuted will have a rewarding afterlife.
God allows suffering and evil, he does not will it to be done. God at any point in time could stop all the evil and all the suffering, but in allowing it he has a bigger purpose for you us. Evil in a matter of its meaning is meant with at intent to do evil. Evil is someone meaning to do harm to another person. No matter how devastating pain and suffering may be, it is not evil in itself. God does not have any evil intentions. Justice is not evil it only involves withholding mercy. God’s main characteristic is love, He does not force evil intentions in us, but he must allow things to happen in this world. God will never cause evil to directly be