Question Of Evil Essay

The question of divine responsibility for evil within the Judeo-Christian tradition is a question that has been evident since the Babylonian exile. Irrespective of this, how this question used to be asked in the medieval/early church, and the way it is asked in the Modern Age is fundamentally different. In the early years, the question of evil and suffering was asked and answered with the knowledge that God’s existence was beyond doubt, but this significantly changed with time when the belief in God was no longer taken for granted. As a result, the belief in God, or having people to believe in God entirely relies on a perfect answer rather a satisfactory explanation of the existence of God. Central to the question of the existence of God and …show more content…
One such philosopher is B.C Johnson. From the onset of his essay on “why doesn’t God Intervene to Prevent Evil”, he asks whether it is likely for us to describe as good any person who stands and watches a young baby being burned painfully to death as a result of a house catching fire. His concern is that anybody present and with the ability to save the child from the burning house is has a moral duty of saving the child. Basing on this example, he asks why then is impossible for an all-powerful God to be impossible to intervene in the myriad of evil and sufferings that visits humans at all time. Given as such, Johnson throws the argument that this God cannot be characterized as good at all. (Johnson 123) In Answer to this, he notes that the probable answer would be that the child would go to heaven, to which he notes that his or her potential to go to heaven is totally irreverent considering the pain and agony that the child is subjected to. If the baby was required in heave, then, in his argument, given the baby’s innocence, the suffering that the baby undergoes is, in all respects, not justifiable given that there is no single reason given of why God allows it, or an explanation of inability to help the