If we were not given free will, the lack of freedom and choice would render us similar to robots. Augustine argues that evil is a price worth paying for human freedom as that only by contrast can the beauty of goodness be highlighted – this principle of comparison is called the “aesthetic principle” by some philosophers. Without free will, evil wouldn’t exist, and we wouldn’t
I have concluded from my own life experiences that God is not responsible for evil. I strongly believe in Jehovah the all mighty! I reference the holy bible in Genesis. Evil is in the world not because God created it, but because we are created with free will. Mankind was led astray by Satan who is ultimately the cause for evil.
Modern Christians believe that this one god handmade all of the earth and the people in it. Gnostics, however, believe that there are two different Gods. Some Gnostics say that there is a Creator God of the Old Testament who is mean and hateful and full of wrath, and then they say there is the New Testament God who is kind and forgiving (28). Orthodox Christians will argue that there is only one God who brings both joy and pain, but those who believe in the gnostic gospels wonder why such a nice god would create such a terrible world for all humans to live in. To them, if there is a good side to the world and a bad side to the world, then there must be two gods to keep track of it all.
Justice of Creation Victor Frankenstein created a living, thinking, and intelligent creature, and with that comes certain responsibilities. Even though he should not have tried to “play God” and create someone that is the same, in all but physical appearance to other human beings. I’d like to discuss Victor creating the creature, the responsibilities that he should have accepted when he created him, and the consequences of the aforementioned decisions. First, Victor Frankenstein, or any other person on this earth at any time, has absolutely no right or power to create life. There is a relatively strong connection to God in this book and many people during this time period believed in God.
As Dennis McCallum explains in The Problem of Evil, there are more than a few ways to prove or disprove God. The most interesting and well thought out argument is the attack based on the persistence of evil. This attack uses the argument that if God were good and all-powerful he would destroy evil, but since evil still exists, there is no such God. Whether this attack is saying that God is not good or that there is no God at all is unclear, but I see it as saying that there is no God. If there truly were a God who was good, why would he let all the unnecessary pain and suffering happen in the world?
(1) This is a process where people are artificially made and conditioned into certain parts of society. Natural birth is considered disgusting and freakish in this world, a world paved in concrete and artificiality. We can also see this in Frankenstein, Victor’s striving for knowledge he was not supposed to have led him to create an unnatural life from. While he does not think natural birth is disgusting, he does think he can make a better and more perfect being than GOD. With this belief Victor is throwing away the idea of natural occurrences being good, and saying that his creation from dead pieces of various bodies can develop an elite being unimagined by GOD.
They also believe that there is no force greater than man and the man is the creator of the world. They do not believe in faith and blessings; naturalists believe that things happen because we as individuals make them happen for ourselves. Naturalists are also known as atheists. Supernaturalists on the other hand are the complete opposite of naturalists and believe that all things are created by God. The supernaturalists believe that “the material world is a derivative realm created by God” (Entwistle, 2010, p.98).
I think this is unnecessary for people to be judged and not included into their own world where nobody is perfect. "The Norm is the Image of God." (p.27) Is what people had believed, because it was in the book. The Mutants, like Sophie, had been
Gods existence is in a higher magnitude than just bigfoot. God’s existence is proven by many arguments like the First Cause and the Kalam Cosmological Argument. The first cause proves Gods existence by saying how anything that exists has an original cause and what exists is caused by God, the only uncaused first cause. People also try and disprove God by trying to point out imperfections of existence like the creation of evil. This does not convince however that God does not exist because evil is necessary for the good.
Nonsense, says Polus. Everyone would enjoy having power over other people. 468e 25. But we should pity unjust dictators, and not envy the power of good ones. 469a 26.