Does God Exist Essay

and suffering exists if the world was created by a God who is omnipotent, omniscient, and good. This question is often referred to as the problem of evil, which can be stated as follows: “Quite frequently horrible things happen. We know that we ought to do all in our power to prevent these things, but often we have not the means of doing so. […] Good people do not intervene because they are powerless. Wicked people do not intervene because they are evil. Which of these groups does God resemble?”…

and Immortality. It suggested Christianity was an egoistic, inhumane religion and criticized belief in personal immorality. As a result he spent the rest of his life as an independent scholar. Feuerbach believes that our belief in the existence of God was established as the result…

explain why the character of Weirob argues it is impossible for an omniscient, omnipotent, and totally good God to exist simultaneously with evil in the world and go into detail about how Weirob believes that if God has these traits, He should be able to eliminate all evils in the world before they occur. Then I will give Miller’s defense to this argument which includes how God and evil can both exist in the world. I will show how he ties in the concept of free will to back up his reasoning…

the belief in a God, both from western and non-western perspectives. The problem of evil also called the problem of suffering, is an argument against the existence of God and is fundamentally the main argument for God’s non-existence by an atheist. In the western world, it is unmistakable that many theists believe in an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent God. However, these set of beliefs cannot all be true at the same time, leading to a contradiction of the attributes of God. The theory…

stern defense of the logical problem of evil, which he uses to suggest the God does not exist. I will attempt to defend the notion that both God and evil, in the form of human creation, can exist in the world by way of suggesting that freewill is the answer. Furthermore, I will strengthen the argument for freewill against Mackie’s defense, which suggests that the argument of freewill also compromises the Omni-three nature of God. In part, I will back freewill by using Mackie’s own logic against…

is that we are actually living in the best possible universe. I disagree with his theodicy because it is logically flawed, it says that God is not omnipotent, and evil is not necessary for us to appreciate the good that exists. The existence of evil in our universe remains to be one of the biggest problems faced by those who believe in God. They wonder why God, an omnipotent and benevolent being, would create a universe in which there is evil? If he is all-good, why…

theodicy, which works to justify the existence of God even though evil exists. John Hick and Steven Cahn in their respective works, “The Problem of Evil” and “The Problem of Good”, provide valid arguments for the existence and probable non existence of God in the presence of good and evil. Through the reversal of Hick’s argument, I feel that Cahn establishes the illogic behind Hick’s view and proves that because both good and bad will always exist within the world, based on Hick’s reasoning and…

The topic of God is often associated with two basic states of existence: one of great goodness and pleasure; the other, wickedness and suffering. The association comes from these experiences being discussed as evidence towards the probability of an immaterial mind, the generally accepted theist perspective being God is a benevolent, omnipotent identity who is good and thus worthy of worship, or being displayed as liabilities by the atheist perspective where it attempts to dissect that ideal…

Page: Intro God knows all. A common phrase backed by many theologians and philosophers. However, the statement is not as simple as it first seems. For don’t humans have free will? And for free will to be free, must no one predetermine it? And if no one predetermines it, then surely how can God know it? This question is avoided more than attacked, but nonetheless has been answered by many great thinkers. To begin, we must first clarify our terms of God, free will, and omniscience. God, in the…

old question of can we prove that God exists, Soren Kierkegaard and Sir Francis Bacon would have different answers. Kierkegaard believes that “Faith, not logic, is the basis of belief”, while Bacon believed that “nature should be interrogated”. Although both philosophers believe in God, through Kierkegaard’s methodology, one could come to the conclusion that God exists, while through Bacon’s methodology one would not be able to come to the conclusion that God exists. Kierkegaard was a…