Philosophy of religion

When you hear the word evil what thoughts pop-in your head? Do you believe an evil can exist if there’s still a higher power or God? In this essay, I will be discussing Williams Rowe’s argument for atheism based on the Well-Known argument “The Problem of evil and Some Varieties of Atheism”. The problem of evil questions the existence of a God based on the evil in the world. In this paper, I will discuss his reasoning for atheism, I will explain in depth what he means by each premise. I then will…

Critical Thesis Paper People are often being blamed or harmed by other human beings from something they are not responsible for. Children are innocent and ignorant of their actions, but suffer from the punishments or tortures from family or other human beings. Since God is powerful and great, why does he allow this to happen to his creations. Both “Rebellion,” by F. Fostoevsky and “Why God Allow Evil,” by Richard Swinburne focus on the existence of evil which is allowed by God. In “Rebellion,”…

The problem of evil has been a consistent argument coming from both theists and atheists for ages. In this paper the argument will be examined from both sides, the article A Simpler Free Will Defense” will be summarized, and I will analyze the article and additionally explain why my side of the argument is correct. The question that stands is “if there is a God how does he let evil occur?” Is it that this God cannot prevent the evil, which goes against the typical theist view that God is…

entitled “The Simplest Statement on the Problem of Evil,” “Some Solutions,” “Evil as a Privation of Goodness,” “The Free-Will Defense,” and “What Even God Cannot Do.” The section entitled “Some Solutions” includes an excerpt from Three Essays on Religion by John Stuart Mill, which asserts that even if God is the creator of the universe, His power may actually be limited (311). This section confronts the issue of any contradictions in the problem of evil. Although an omnibenevolent God and the…

The largest obstacle in believing the existence of God is the theodicy problem or the problem of evil. The problem of evil states there cannot be the co-existence of a good God and the existence of evil. How can an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omniscient loving God allow such evil acts of hatred and suffering in our world? Why do bad things happen to good people? Understandably so, because of this, it has become the largest threat to Christian theology. Many theologians have sought to…

The atheist-theist argument has been an age-long debate. Though it is debated, it does not mean that it is, by any means, a matter of a guess. A theist can have full confidence that God is real, as well as reasonable evidence to reach that conclusion in lieu of the many atheist arguments. In Have Atheists Proved There Is No God by Thomas B. Warren, the reader is introduced to an atheist argument that has been widely used for numerous years and it’s logical implications. In addition to the…

discuss the arguments which Hume presents about the problems of evil in the world, and how this evil is opposed to a divine benevolent God. We will also discuss the criticism that Swinburne produces on Hume’s arguments. In Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion by Hume touches on a couple factors of evil through the characters Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes. Demea states that evil is: “the miseries of life the unhappiness of man the general corruptions of our nature the unsatisfactory…

It is hard to imagine a world where evil did not exist. It seems to be that evil is always part of our daily activities, whether it be big or small. I always knew that evil was part of life but I never really understood the reasoning behind it. Till this day suffering and evil was never something that I questioned or wondered why it existed in a world that was created by God himself. I always found myself questioning the existents of God when things were going bad. I would questions his…

The Exposition of the Problem of Evil In my paper, I will present the argument Weirob gives on the Problem of Evil, and explain Miller’s response to the Problem of Evil. I will 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…

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…