Problem of evil

Theism and Evil Atheists hold many claims about God and why he cannot exist because of evil present in the world. Some of their arguments for this include that God could prevent evil actions and preserve human freedom of will if he wanted, God could maintain a world without evil by continual divine intervention, the existence of evil proves it is logically impossible for a Perfect Being to exist, and the existence of evil proves we do not need God to find meaning and purpose in life. These can…

The evidential Argument of evil is the problem of deciding whether and, if so, what extent the existence of evil (Or proven request, types, amounts, or allotment of evil) define evidence against the existence of God, that is to tell, being perfect in strength, knowing and goodness. Evidential arguments from evil have to try to show that, once we put away any kind of evidence there might be upholding the existence of God, it becomes soon after, if not indeed out of the way, that the world was…

Definition of evil in terms of good is “anything in the world which makes the world good”. One survey was conducted in which people were asked to put a question to God and they have to keep in mind that God answers that then what would they ask? Most of the people want to know from God that “whey there is pain and suffering?” even God can do anything, knows everything and morally perfect. This question arises and philosophers call this as “the problem of evil”. There are two types of evil in the…

The Problem of Evil In Evil and Omnipotence J.L Mackie argues that if there is a God who is all-powerful and all good than he would not have allowed there to be any evil in this world, or if there was any evil to begin with he would have eliminated it, but sense there is evil than God must not exist. If you think about how and what Mackie is arguing then it makes sense, that God must not exist if he would let us be tormented by evil on a daily biases, but this argument is only valid to the…

In Simon Blackburn’s “Think”, Blackburn argues whether an all good, all knowing, and all powerful entity does exist. I focused on the argument Blackburn posed on Chapter 5, “God”. Blackburn is wrong to claim that the existence of evil suggests an entity who is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful does not exist. Simon Blackburn discusses that there is no actual truth to religion since there is no concrete proof that there is even a God. Blackburn brings up the fact that it is not possible…

In his article, Evil and Omnipotence, J.L. Mackie begins by addressing that every argument for the existence of God shown by philosophers has had its faults. The aim of Mackie’s argument is to prove that philosophy is not capable of criticizing arguments for the existence of God. Another aim is to prove that God does not exist, thus eliminating any positions made by theologians. Mackie calls his argument the ‘problem of evil’ since it demonstrates that the conception of both an omnipotent and…

The problem of evil arises in both of the philosophical arguments by Gottfried Leibniz and J. L. Mackie, as they attempt to argue for and against the existence of God. The title of Leibniz’s book, Theodicy, translates into “the vindication of God’s power and goodness despite the existence of evil,” and so Leibniz attempts to solve the problem of evil through his work (Martin 313). Mackie’s work, Evil and Omnipotence, sets forth a strong thesis in his argument challenging religious belief in God.…

My perspective on the existence of God and the problem of Evil breaks down to free will, therefore I believe that although God is all-knowing and all-loving, allowing humanity to process free will created a gate for Evil to rise in the form of decision making. God allowed humanity to exercise free will. This may, in a certain perspective portray God as an evil entity, but he does not command humanity to commit crimes, rape, murder, lie, cheat, or steal. A person’s own free will is the decision…

of God's existence is because of the problem of evil. The people that believe in the existence of God are called theist and those who do not are called atheist. Both have a thought of the existence of God, but atheist feels as if there is no proof. Since the free will defense is a very controversial topic, I believe that the free will defense is partially successful response to the problem of evil because it only justifies moral evil rather than natural evil. Atheist believe that God does not…

In the “Roundtable Discussion on the Problem of Evil”, Meghan Sullivan, Trent Dougherty, and Sam Newlands discuss the Problem of Evil for theism. All three people do not take the side of a theist or an atheist, but instead discuss the problem from a mostly objective view. The Problem of Evil is also discussed by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and William Craig in God? A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist, where Sinnott-Armstrong argues from the atheist’s point of view and Craig argues from the…