Evil And Omnipotence Summary

The Problem of Evil In Evil and Omnipotence J.L Mackie argues that if there is a God who is all-powerful and all good than he would not have allowed there to be any evil in this world, or if there was any evil to begin with he would have eliminated it, but sense there is evil than God must not exist. If you think about how and what Mackie is arguing then it makes sense, that God must not exist if he would let us be tormented by evil on a daily biases, but this argument is only valid to the people who think God is both omnipotent and wholly good. Which few traditional Theist will say that God is not omnipotent or wholly good, but if you can than the problem of evil will not arise for you. Mackie also gives us a few fallacious solutions such as “Good cannot exist without evil” or “Evil is a necessary as a counterpart to good”. So that to everything there must be a counterpart, good has evil, without evil would we even have good? If we didn’t have evil how would we know what good even is? If everyone is good, and no one is evil than good wouldn’t be good it would be normal, people would be so used to seeing good that it would be nothing out of the ordinary like it is these days. At the same time though Mackie brings up …show more content…
How can we know that we are happy if we have never been sad? If we have never felt sorrow, pain, or suffering, how can we ever hope to feel joy, pleasure or pure happiness? These are the things that evil gives us, so you say that evil is a necessary to having good, you can’t have one without the other otherwise it would never be