Summary Of Peter Van Inwagen's Problem Of Evil

Peter Van Inwagen’s whole concept of this article was to prove through various points and arguments the conflicts of evil. He brings arguments, and ideas that disagrees with the notion of even believing that evil exists. What he begins with is the problem with believing evil exists is; say evil exists through the many happenings you have witnessed or even only heard about, so how can it not be real right? Inwagen inserts the idea that God, almighty and creator of all, does not exist if large amounts of evil exist through is research from other readings about evil. The mere idea of god existing while evil does will reject the image that is there for God. So if evil exists, then, therefore, God does not exist. Peter goes against this conclusion, this conclusion was mainly made from atheists who with no question believe that if there is evil (which there is) then therefore God cannot exist, it wouldn’t make sense. Peter himself knows that a lot of people especially people who have strong religious views who would genuinely disagree with this premise or conclusion in this argument.

In this article it is basically God vs Evil, which is the main argument if he exists evil can’t exist, and if evil exists …show more content…
In this article Peter discusses the problems that evil creates and arguments of evil and how they affect the judgement of people believing whether God exists or does not exist. Throughout the article he makes valid points, he makes his points and explains arguments against him and moves on to supporting his ideas and going through arguments that were against them. What he began with is that, if God were to exist and be omnipotent and perfect and could also do nothing morally wrong, then why would evil even cease to exist? If evil is wrong and God is all knowing then he must know of the evil that is taking place right? And if he is morally perfect, why does allow evil to