The acceptance of evil or theodicy within our modern world, has become questioned more and more as we as citizens of the world and children of God are constantly exposed to the terrors of religious fanatic’s, murderers, and tribes of kidnappers around the globe. The phrase, if God is all powerful, all knowing, and all good, how can that same God allow evil to exist and for bad things to happen to good people? Some authors have even attempted to answer this question directly, there is at present a widespread philosophical consensus, shared by atheists as well as theists, that (the logical problem of evil) has been satisfactorily answered by Alvin Plantinga’s Free Will Defence’, (Phillips, D, 2007). To imply that freewill is the absolute
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Within this concept, the idea of free will exposes a flaw the thought process, if God can be all good, then he must also be capable of hate as well. While the act of a person electing between doing something that is right and something that is wrong, is related to free will, the idea that the person making the decision is a religious person should also be considered as well. A person without faith, traditions, or the ability to hold something sacred, can easily be described as a non-believer or atheist. To further explore the non-believer conception of evil within the world, how does this person measure what is or is not evil in the first place? What unit of measurement does this person use to qualify such an act, other than taking a strictly philosophical …show more content…
Yet, many times evil in the world can be viewed in different ways. It can be said that when a doctor delivers bad news it is an evil that is being delivered, I do not believe that it is an evil being delivered, the approached used may be curt and with no professionalism, yet the act itself is not evil; “straight-to-the-point” manner. This is often a futile attempt made on the physician’s part to ease his or her own uncomfortableness when delivering bad news, Gao, Zheng. 2011 The concept of free will, must be considered and discussed as a way to round out this discussion. Many authors and philosophers have noted that; “intentions have a number of different roles to play in practical reasoning and action, some of which are unique to the individual person”, Kane, Robert. 1996. To understand that a person does in fact have personal intention’s, whatever they may be, are the sole reasoning for that individual
Within this concept, the idea of free will exposes a flaw the thought process, if God can be all good, then he must also be capable of hate as well. While the act of a person electing between doing something that is right and something that is wrong, is related to free will, the idea that the person making the decision is a religious person should also be considered as well. A person without faith, traditions, or the ability to hold something sacred, can easily be described as a non-believer or atheist. To further explore the non-believer conception of evil within the world, how does this person measure what is or is not evil in the first place? What unit of measurement does this person use to qualify such an act, other than taking a strictly philosophical …show more content…
Yet, many times evil in the world can be viewed in different ways. It can be said that when a doctor delivers bad news it is an evil that is being delivered, I do not believe that it is an evil being delivered, the approached used may be curt and with no professionalism, yet the act itself is not evil; “straight-to-the-point” manner. This is often a futile attempt made on the physician’s part to ease his or her own uncomfortableness when delivering bad news, Gao, Zheng. 2011 The concept of free will, must be considered and discussed as a way to round out this discussion. Many authors and philosophers have noted that; “intentions have a number of different roles to play in practical reasoning and action, some of which are unique to the individual person”, Kane, Robert. 1996. To understand that a person does in fact have personal intention’s, whatever they may be, are the sole reasoning for that individual