The topic of evil and why God so calls "allows" evil to happen has become a cliché that non-believers have used as a method to shame believer for their beliefs. The author in prompt seven makes the argument that if God was this so call good God why did he allow an event like the holocaust to occur. The author also implies that the position that God allows things to happen because of free will should be put aside when it is not realistic to believe in the real world where people are dying. The author also believes that free will is not more important than the life of people. In addition to this the author argues that the notion of God allowing such evil event to happen is "silliness", the basic point of her argument is that free will is not
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Augustine of Hippo agrees with the general theme of Genies, that the world was created perfect that through the miss use of free will the world got introduce to evil when Adam and Eva will into the serpent's trap. In this argument, Augustin of Hippo is referring to the original sin of man that got them removed from the garden of Eden. The author from prompt would also argue that that Irenaeus greater good is "silliness", he or she would make the argument that free will is not worth the lives of millions and that if God was omnibenevolent then he would want to stop the evil. The author would argue that the "virtue" that was learned from God "allowing" six million does not equal or amount to the lives that were lost. An analogy that we discuss in class to better understand Irenaeus point of view is Immunization shots at first when a child or person receives a shot it produces pain, but the pain is necessary to achieve a greater good. When a parent takes a child to the doctor they are not intentionally trying to cause pain to that child, but they know that if they do not receive the shot the change of them getting sick increases, or if they get sick the sickness is often times greater than it would have been if they had gotten the shot. The person or child receiving the shot is not the only one benefiting from it. Other people that come in close contact with the person benefits from the shots too. They shot would help to decrease the spread of the sickness from one individual to
Augustine of Hippo agrees with the general theme of Genies, that the world was created perfect that through the miss use of free will the world got introduce to evil when Adam and Eva will into the serpent's trap. In this argument, Augustin of Hippo is referring to the original sin of man that got them removed from the garden of Eden. The author from prompt would also argue that that Irenaeus greater good is "silliness", he or she would make the argument that free will is not worth the lives of millions and that if God was omnibenevolent then he would want to stop the evil. The author would argue that the "virtue" that was learned from God "allowing" six million does not equal or amount to the lives that were lost. An analogy that we discuss in class to better understand Irenaeus point of view is Immunization shots at first when a child or person receives a shot it produces pain, but the pain is necessary to achieve a greater good. When a parent takes a child to the doctor they are not intentionally trying to cause pain to that child, but they know that if they do not receive the shot the change of them getting sick increases, or if they get sick the sickness is often times greater than it would have been if they had gotten the shot. The person or child receiving the shot is not the only one benefiting from it. Other people that come in close contact with the person benefits from the shots too. They shot would help to decrease the spread of the sickness from one individual to