David Hume's Argument Analysis

According to Abrahamic religion belief there is Being, God, who is the sole creator of the universe, and every single thing occurs the way he wants it. God (Allah) has no gender, because of that I will use both pronoun He/She to refer to God. There are three major attributes about God; omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. Now, we need to find out what each of the three terms mean? Omnipotent means a being, God, who has unlimited power. For example, She can make something appear just out of nowhere. As human beings we generally have to take steps in order to make things happen. She can do anything. Omniscient means, God, who knows everything. She must be wise and have unlimited knowledge of everything. For example, if there is anything to be known, God knows it. She knows it immediately. Omnibenevolent being, God,
In this paper, I intend to show that Hume’s argument is unsound which is if God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good then evil does not exist because the presence of Evil itself is not a sufficient justification for denying the existence of God. …show more content…
What is the definition of evil? It is defined as the absence or complete opposite of which is attributed as being good. There are two kinds of evil. There is moral evil, an evil which is deliberately caused by human beings from their free will such as rape, murder, and theft. There is natural evil, an evil which is not deliberately caused by human beings but which involve things that ‘just happen’ on random such as tornado, earthquake, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami. Now that we have defined what is evil, and the characteristics of God, we must find out what is Hume’s argument regarding the problem of