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“problem of evil” and attempts to address the problem by explaining “specific evils and the amount of evil” (311). Several theories centered around this problem are described, such as the privation theory of evil, the therapy theory of evil, and the free-will defense. In the text it is explicitly stated that theists, and believers in God will not deny God’s omnipotence or omnibenevolence (311). Still, some solutions to the problem include the claims that God’s power may actually be limited and…

Take Control of Life or Be Stuck With What You Get! In life, people have the option between making their own choices or just simply waiting until someone gives them what they want. Chances are the only way a person can get what they want is by doing it themselves. Victims do not take the fault for their actions, but instead blame and complain others. They also stand by and do nothing to achieve a goal. Taking on the victim role can be easy, but taking on the creator role is what gets a person…

Personal choice and fate are both things that lead everyday lives. Both playing an equal role to outcomes in our lives just like in Romeo and Juliet. The play Romeo and Juliet is based on a family fued between the Capulets and Montagues, and two people from either of the family’s falling into forbidden love and end up killing themselves because they can’t be together. Romeo and Juliet are led to their deaths by both fate and personal choice; both play an equal role to the ending of this play.…

Free will is definitely more noticeable in the Old Testament compare to the Greek literature we have read in class. However, talk of fate and destiny had way more of an appearance in Greek literature compare to the idea of free will. Whenever a individual felt lost and didn't know what to do next, they would look at the foretold prophecies. Being able to look at prophecies diminishes the idea of free will since it allows an individual to be able to see the future, and prophecies are supposed to…

John Calvin preached that humans were predestined for their life on Earth, and there is nothing you can do change what you have been given. In reality, individuals have free will, which gives humans the opportunity to turn their life around. Although some may believe their actions are driven by fate, in truth, humans have free will to choose their actions and decide their choices for themselves. In many places in the world, people follow strict cults with stringent restrictions and traditions.…

What is fate? Fate is defined as a series of events which happen beyond the person’s control. Fate controls many different characters and the choices they make, as well as controlling what is going to happen next in the story. An example of this occurringis in thebook Things Fall Apart. The main character, Okonkwo, is destined by fate. He tries to be the best and yet through all of his success he still happens to fail. These destinies occur even when we try our best to get out of them by using…

These errors include the ideas that “there are enduring things; that there are equal things; that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what is appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.” In relation to Nietzsche’s time, it was only recently that these ideas–which were formerly considered to be fundamentally true–have begun to be scrutinized. This leads Nietzsche to form two conclusions:…

One of the most controversial questions in the Christian world today is this: how can a world created by such a loving God have so much evil? It is a valid question, and no matter where each one of us is in our spirituality, it is one we have all asked ourselves at one point-maybe even asked God. St. Thomas Aquinas must have dealt with this as well, proving it to be a timeless inquiry. Did God cause evil? And if not, where does it come from? St. Thomas Aquinas takes an interesting angle at…

logical and evidence-based problems. The defense of moral evil states that an omnibenevolent and omnipotent god would allow for evil to exist, because through those evils, greater good could emerge. We are free beings and as free beings we should have the opportunity to choose, and the free being who has the opportunity…

does exist, it could be reasonably deduced that He is omniscient and He created a world that He knows all possible outcomes (because God has perfect logic) without directly causing it (pulling the strings). God does have His sovereign will, and our free will is limited only in the sense that it cannot conflict with His sovereign will. Keep in mind this is calculus level stuff, so if you are calling into question everything we know about the laws of mathematics it will be impossible for you to…