Omnibenevolence

Introduction The existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent God is coherent despite the subsistence of horrendous evil in the world. Two major points are argued for in this paper lead to this conclusion. Firstly, evil is deemed not to be a “thing”; for everything in the world is created by the omnibenevolent God and as a good being; God is not one to create evil things (Jackson, 2014). Critics argue that if God exists and if God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good; He would…

bares the question whether God is a perfect because of all wrong taking place in the world. Through these two problems it is hard to even imagine that God is perfect. Through Richard Swinburne’s theodicy (theodicy - an attempt to defend God's omnibenevolence in the face of evil) , one comes to find the case that initially escapes the evidential and logical problems In the logical problem of evil, it is made aware that three things must be true in the contemporary version layout for evil to…

If we ask what is God like, one can only say,” Awesome” to those who believe in him. If we look into ourselves and seek the goodness in ourselves, then we shall know who God is. Truly, the personal relationship one has with God intertwined allows the person to fully understand who and what God means to them. In terms of a definition of God is he is the infinite being and to fully answer the question of who he is starting, with God’s Word to seek what he is like. In order to seek God’s love,…

My reading journal assignment was Aquinas for Arm Chair Theologians by Timothy Renick. I have a lot of respect for Thomas Aquinas. He argued against men like John Calvin and Martin Luther on subjects like man could still have free will and at the same time God could still be all knowing. He also created a theory that explained why there is evil in the world but allowed God to stay all powerful and all good. Aquinas’s theory on the existence of evil was very interesting. He said that there is…

This argument seems to be based on an assumption, on the part of Al-Ghazali, that there is a sense of possibility which is external and above God: one that even God must remain bound by. This can be seen in the juxtaposition of the conclusion and the sixth premise. In the conclusion, Al-Ghazali is content with the claim that God cannot have created a better creation since such a creation is not possible. In premise six, however, Al-Ghazali is quite unhappy with the notion that God is not able to…

In one way or another, we have all experienced that moment. The moment when, staring up at the late night sky or down at your newborn child, our own existence is thrown sharply into perspective and life appears both small and magnificent all at once, leaving us to wonder, “How is this possible?” And by “this” we mean life itself. The smallest questions often pose the most difficult to answer and the question of life’s existence is certainly no exception. Many theories have been offered as…

In discussions of the Teleological and Ontological arguments, one controversial issue is whether existence is a predicate or not. On one hand, the Ontological argument contends that existence is a predicate to perfection. On the other hand, Kant disputes that existence is not a “real predicate” to perfection because it does not give attributes to explain the existence of God, therefore, making existence a special case. I will be discussing the idea of a special case and how the Ontological…

Noetic structure and the nature of God According to Nash, “The philosophy of religion is the branch of philosophy that studies questions arising out of philosophical reflection about religious claim, beliefs, and practices.” (Nash, 13). This is important to note because philosophical views on religion allows us to take note and inferences and place them in context. Nash clearly notes that in order to understand the philosophy of religion there are some kinds of questions encountered in the…