Meaning that since good and evil are opposites, since god created good he would have to have created evil. Another response to this is that some theist think something’s cant exist unless their opposites exist so that being thought leads them to believe that since there is good there must be evil. Which I don’t think is true because some things exist because their opposites don’t like having peace. You cant have peace if there’s war. Since peace and war are opposites and one can only exist when the other doesn’t makes some theist response not very accurate.
Furthermore it is a challenging problem, as the existence of evil and suffering is an objective reality. J.L.Mackie found another way to express the problem of evil and suffering. He called it the inconsistent triad. It is a triangle with the words ‘God’s omnipotence’, ‘God’s Omni- benevolence’ and ‘Evil exists’ on each corner. Therefore each
Moral evil is an act of mankind such as murder; natural evil would be something that is not caused by any specific agent but has victims such as would be produced by earthquakes. [1] Because of evil in the world, many argue against there being a creator God by attempting to show that the co-existence of evil and such a deity is unlikely or impossible. The attempts to justify the ways of God to man by proving that God can and does co-exist with evil, are known as theodicies and provide various responses to the problem of evil. Leibniz’s theodicy states that God did not choose the best in creating the world, but then God would be lacking in power, knowledge and goodness. Augustinian theodicy argues that God created the world and it was perfect, without any evil or suffering until man’s fall and Irenaean theodicy states God is partially responsible for evil and suffering as a process of soul building.
Falon Amanda Moss Prof. Edmond Lisa ENC 1102—Virtual Class 20 October 2011 Eliezer’s Faith Struggle Most people ask the question why is there evil? If God is all good then why did he create people who are evil and that rebel? To the unbelievers, and the atheists, this would be their argument. How can an omnipotent, benevolent God allow evil? Eliezer started to struggle with this same question.
“Because there is something seriously wrong with rape, God says rape is not permissible” (Furman). This is contradictory because the Divine Command Theory states that something is wrong “just because God said so” (Furman). We can see that the first argument for the Divine Command Theory fails to prove it true. So let’s move on to our second argument for the Divine Command Theory, the “Immutability Argument” and explore its truth. The argument is as follows: If the Divine Command Theory is true, then what is
Critically examine one of Descartes' arguments for the existence of God Descartes' Meditation III provides a causal and cosmological argument that God exists. Having used the Method of Doubt in Meditations I and II in order to reject his false beliefs, Descartes assumes that the only things he knows at this point are the conclusions reached at Meditations I and II. Having also doubted judgements in arithmetic and geometry because of the possibility of the existence of an evil demon, Descartes wishes to find out if there is a God, and if so, is this God deceitful? If He is good, then it would follow that mathematics and simple natures could be reinstated. In order to disprove the evil demon hypothesis, Descartes examines the different degrees of reality in things in comparison to God.
Don't Get Me Started On- Irrational Beliefs Faith is highly anachronistic aspect of the world today. . Science changes it's views based on what is observed in order to create the best model to explain the world around us, whereas religion is the denial of the said observations in order to preserve an irrational belief. Christianity for example, is based on a book written around 2,000 years ago. The genesis story alone supplies more than enough theoretical fuel to keep an atheist's argument burning.
Explain the term evil (30m) There are 2 different types of evil moral (caused by human beings) and natural (caused by nature). There is a logical problem of evil which is called the inconsistent triad; this is the argument that God cannot possess all the Omni characteristics with the existence of evil. This is a logical inconsistency. The existence of evil is incompatible with the existence of God; it is logically incoherent to accept that both exist together. God being omnipotent means that he can do anything which means he could have created a world free from evil.
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If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?” The problem of evil poses this question: how can a God who is all-powerful, all-wise, and all-good permit so much pain, suffering, and evil in the world? How would you answer this question? week 6 Jesus and the Kingdom of God (graded) Describe some of the values Jesus had in mind when he used the phrase “Kingdom of God.” One scholar has called Jesus’s message “ethical apocalypticism.” What do you think this means in light of our discussion of apocalypticism in the text?