Problem of evil

Classic Problem of Evil has been pondered by many great minds. Humans and other living things continue to be troubled by the many kinds of evils. If God is benevolent, He would not want people and other living things to suffer. If God is omniscient, He must know when they are suffering. If God is omnipotent, He must be able to prevent this suffering. Yet this evil suffering still exists. They come to the conclusion that: if God does not want to prevent suffering, then God seems to have evil…

The problem of evil is one of the most tenacious challenges to God’s existence and has been a very important topic of debate between theists and atheist philosophers. According to theists, God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. These are characteristics that must be believed with full faith if one is committed to worshipping God. However, the issue arises when the existence of evil is brought into the conversation.. The existence of evil is accepted by the majority of humans,…

to the problem of evil—that which states that good cannot exist without evil. I will introduce and lay-out the problem of evil, discuss two variations of this objection that Mackie puts forth, and offer a third variation to test the stregnth of the problem of evil against this particular objection. The problem of evil aims to expose the apparent inconsistencies of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic formulation of God. That is, a God that is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. If the problem of…

modern and ancient history we have too many examples of evil committed by both humans and natural evils. Why would our benevolent God let these terrible acts occur to those both innocent and sinners alike? Why would there be so much disease, so much violence, so much corruption and sexual perversion. In one way or another God has either created these things or simply let them occur for one reason or another. Not only do we have many occurrences of evil in the Bible, we also see them through post…

The purpose of this essay is to explain how St. Augustine ultimately solves the ‘problem of evil’ in a way that is compatible with his Christian faith by making reference to the aspects of nature of evil itself, and why we as humans sin. Augustine writes to gain better understanding of his faith. In explaining the problems of evil, Augustine provides reasonable thoughts and views about the discussion and has been solved by clearly defining that we need the guidance of God. At a stage in…

In the “Roundtable Discussion on the Problem of Evil”, Meghan Sullivan, Trent Dougherty, and Sam Newlands discusses the Problem of Evil for theism, as well as defences theists have come up with against the problem. 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…

The Problem of Evil It is often asked why evil 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…

There are many debates on problem of evil in the world. David Hume and Richard Swinburne agree there are two categories of evil in the world. The moral evils, which are evils which people commit upon each other, and natural evils, which are evils that derive from natural sources like bad weather conditions. In the following paragraphs I will 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…

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…

Response Paper “The Problem of Evil” The “Problem of evil” is the problem of reviving the existence of the evil in the world with the existence of an omnipotent and a perfect God. The argument from evil is an argument saying that the existence of such evil should not be in this world with an existence of a God. Christianity says that God created the world we live in and that he sustains it. They also…