Does God Or Evil Really Exist?

In the course of this essay I will argue that evil is not compatible with the existence of god. This means that evil and God cannot coexist because if god were present, the existence of evil would contradict all that god is believed to be. Abrahamic religions insist that God both created the world and that he preserves and maintains it. Christianity claims that God is all knowing and is boundless in his abilities. Religions claim that God is benevolent, and only wants the best for humanity and the universe, as his creations. If all of the above statements be true, then it is hard to understand why god would allow evil to thrive right from the beginning of time.

“The problem of evil is often divided between the logical and evidential problems.” At the heart of each problem is the belief that the existence of God and the existence evil are incompatible. They present an “either/or” dilemma: either God

1. Because of man’s ignorance and curiosity, arguments for the existence of God have been made over the years. Basically, these arguments are divided into two large groups i.e. logical and metaphysical. Actually, these arguments seek to prove that the existence of a being or having faith with at least one attribute that only God could have is logically necessary.

Why Does God allow suffering? This question is probably as old as religion itself. It is a stumbling block for some of us, and for many more at given moments of tragedy. There are as many answers to this question as there are people who care to engage in theological dialogue. One understanding is that yes, God allows "bad" things to happen; God does not cause them to happen.

One of the main topic in the philosophy of religion is the discussion between theists and skeptics on the existence of God. Atheists say that there is a logical inconsistency between the existence of evil and the existence of God. However, theists believe that the mere existence of evil is not sufficient enough to completely dismiss the possibility of a morally perfect being existing This paper will discuss the logical inconsistencies between God and the “problem of evil” as well as the theist 's response to this argument through the free-will defense. In response, the atheist will address the problems evil that the free-will defense did not address, like natural evils. an argument that the thiests will attempt to dismiss using the “expanded free-will defense” which touches on humans primordial estrangement from God. Nonetheless, I feel the theist 's response fails to defend the existence of God because it does not fully address gratuitous evils or suffering from nonhuman beings.

One of the heaviest arguments against God’s existence is the problem of evil. The traditional conception of God is as omnipresent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. If this is true then God either can’t do anything about it, doesn’t know about it or doesn’t care about it. This then implies that God is either not all powerful as he can’t prevent the suffering, not all-knowing as he doesn’t know about the suffering, or not all good if he doesn’t care about the suffering. This challenges the concept of God being the greatest being in the universe. However, there are many different responses to the concept of evil, they may not be all satisfactory but they cast doubt on this argument. One of the responses challenging the problem of evil is that God did not create the evil in the world. A lot of the evil in the world only occurs

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He’s a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering. The Bible says that God is not the author of evil. It speaks of evil as a “mystery.” In 2 Thessalonians 2:7 it talks about the mystery of iniquity. The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah said, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” He asked that question, “Who can understand it?” And that’s one reason we each need God in our lives.

The logical problem of evil has three prepositions and a conclusion. Firstly, evil and suffering exist. Secondly, God is benevolent and omnipotent. Thirdly, an omnipotent and benevolent God would remove all suffering if he existed. The conclusion is that God does not

William Rowe defines gratuitous evil as an instance of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.(Rowe 335) In a world with so much evil it raises the questions If God is all powerful, all knowing and all good, how can he allow bad things to happen to good people? Can God even exist in a world with so such gratuitous evil? These are questions that has afflicted humanity for a very long time and has been the question to engross theologians for centuries. The existence of evil has been the most influential and powerful reason to disprove the existence of God. It is believed among many theist that God is the creator and caretaker

The existence of evil in the world caused people to questioned the existence of the perfect God. If God was truly omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good, then why would he let terrible things happen to good people? In recent news, we have witnessed many innocent deaths caused by a school shooting, a child raped, natural disaster, and other tragic events. If God was in control of everything, does this means that he allows these bad things to happen to humanity? This suffering seems to conflicts with the images of a perfect God. It is important for Christian to acknowledged that God did not cause evil and that he is still the same loving God. To understand why God, allow evil and suffering among humanity, we must inspect the theodicy ( the doctrine that will explain the suffering happening in the world) or the problem of evil. It is important to be able to understand and define the problems of evil. Second, we will reflect upon the characteristic of the Lord and his power, on his ability to prevent evil. Lastly, I will also share my position on this particular theological problem.

In my opinion God is not the creator of evil and suffering. This is implied in the bible, in Genesis 1:31, when it says; “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” Therefore, everything that he had made was good, thus He could not possibly be the author of evil. So where did suffering come from? God wanted a genuine relationship with us. He wanted us to sincerely love him, like he already loved us. However, this would not have been possible without the freedom of choice, otherwise we would just be like robots, programmed to love God, rather than actually experiencing it (Dickson, 2001). However, when God gave Adam and Eve this freedom, we, as humans, betrayed him and chose to eat the fruit from the tree that we were forbidden not too. We abused the free will that he gave us and walked away from Him. This, in my opinion, is the reason that good people suffer. Because when we walked away from God, we also brought natural and moral evil into the world. Moral evil is the suffering that occurs as a result of our own uncaring, selfish, and hateful actions. For example, if we look at famine, the world produces enough food for everyone to have 3,000 calories a day; however, it is a result of our own self-centeredness that thousands of people around the world starve. It is a result of our own free will. Furthermore, natural evil can also be explained

In a study done by the Worldhunger.com, it was found that there between the years 2014 and 2016 there were 7.3 million individuals out of 7.3 billion that were suffering from chronic under nourishment worldwide. This is roughly 1/9 people however this number does not account for the individuals that are undergoing impoverished lifestyles and are able to provide only minimal food for themselves (Worldhunger). Aside from hunger, countless problems exist in the world. For example, there are wars occurring that area killing innocent civilians and leaving families separated and young children orphaned. Disease plaques the world killing many people and cutting their lives short, there is murder and there is rape. Countless acts such as these occur

The existence of evil is unquestionable. In our lives we have all experienced at some kind of pain. We have all had some kind of emotional or physical pain in our life. To believe in the existence of God we have to understand that what is evil? Well the simplest way to describe this would be that evil is something that causes suffering to human beings. First we can all agree on that evil exists in this world from the fact that the history of humankind is full of wars, murders,

Next, there is Augustine’s free will theory, which was heavily influenced by Neo-Platonism. According to Augustine, evil is a “deprivation” or lack of good. The only pro I can

In the art piece The Sacrament of the Last Supper, by surreal artist Salvador Dali, he shows the image of the famous “Last supper” shared between Jesus and his disciples before Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot. The main philosophical question that arose to me when I saw this painting was if God exists. Depicted in the painting there is a higher being or God watching over Jesus and his disciples. There are many arguments and ideas for the existence of a higher being or God, some of the main ones are; Pascal’s Wager, the Ontological argument, the Cosmological argument, the Teleological argument, the Moral argument, and the argument from religious experience. A classic argument that is used a lot is the first cause that states ”all events in the natural world must have a cause therefore God must be the initiator of all events.” So my question is; is there a higher being or God?