Looking at many examples throughout modern and ancient history we have too many examples of evil committed by both humans and natural evils. Why would our benevolent God let these terrible acts occur to those both innocent and sinners alike? Why would there be so much disease, so much violence, so much corruption and sexual perversion. In one way or another God has either created these things or simply let them occur for one reason or another. Not only do we have many occurrences of evil in the Bible, we also see them through post biblical history, why hasn’t humanity been spared of this yet, hasn’t thousands of years of evil’s presence been enough? In the essay The Problem of Evil, the author says “Either God cannot abolish evil or he will
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A very interesting example is diseases, why would god create such vile and painful conditions? Were they simply created to make our future generations stronger, made to deny us from certain environments, made to punish us as in the case of Job in the Bible or even possibly population control? In the Theodicy essay, we are told “Evil (moral evil, that is) owes its existence to the deeds of men: evil is manifested in concreto in the deeds of men; its victims and their torturers and executioners.” Deos this mean we have caused what yoke we bear? We the go to looking at making our future generations strong, is a strong possibility. How this helps us, is by making our immune systems more resistant to strains of viruses, different bacteria and infection. Another way this aids us is by forcing us to scientifically advance by researching vaccines, treatments for viruses, and different ways of fighting off infections especially those resistant to traditional treatment means. Looking at ways to keep us out of certain areas makes me instantly think of the Ebola virus, this virus made its first recorded appearance in 1976 with transmission from an infected animal that supposedly emerged from the deep jungle in Central Africa. This would appear as if God didn’t want anyone to make their way into those deep jungles or to possibly keep us from messing with the wild life or maybe even the ecosystem itself. After that we have the possibility of evil being used to punish us for our sinful acts or even to test our love and devotion to God. We see the greatest example of this in the story of Job in the Bible. But what would account for everyday people today who get cancer? Take for example my cousin Kit who recently passed to both melanoma and lymphoma. He was a good man, he attended
A very interesting example is diseases, why would god create such vile and painful conditions? Were they simply created to make our future generations stronger, made to deny us from certain environments, made to punish us as in the case of Job in the Bible or even possibly population control? In the Theodicy essay, we are told “Evil (moral evil, that is) owes its existence to the deeds of men: evil is manifested in concreto in the deeds of men; its victims and their torturers and executioners.” Deos this mean we have caused what yoke we bear? We the go to looking at making our future generations strong, is a strong possibility. How this helps us, is by making our immune systems more resistant to strains of viruses, different bacteria and infection. Another way this aids us is by forcing us to scientifically advance by researching vaccines, treatments for viruses, and different ways of fighting off infections especially those resistant to traditional treatment means. Looking at ways to keep us out of certain areas makes me instantly think of the Ebola virus, this virus made its first recorded appearance in 1976 with transmission from an infected animal that supposedly emerged from the deep jungle in Central Africa. This would appear as if God didn’t want anyone to make their way into those deep jungles or to possibly keep us from messing with the wild life or maybe even the ecosystem itself. After that we have the possibility of evil being used to punish us for our sinful acts or even to test our love and devotion to God. We see the greatest example of this in the story of Job in the Bible. But what would account for everyday people today who get cancer? Take for example my cousin Kit who recently passed to both melanoma and lymphoma. He was a good man, he attended