Problem Of Evil Research Paper

The Story, The Possibility of Evil is a truly interesting story that demonstrates the evil of a community that seems almost perfect. This story demonstrates how there is probably no place on Earth that evil has not reached. The story bases itself on a small suburban town and the people that live there. The reader meets Miss Strangeworth who is a sweet little lady that smiles to everyone during the day and starts conversations, but by the time she gets home she starts writing letters revealing secrets and unpleasant facts of her neighbours and fellow townspeople and

The argument for the existence of God has been a debate for many centuries. God, in terms of philosophy, must be a supernatural being that: is all-knowing, is all-powerful, and is all-good. Theists believe God exists based on these terms; atheists on the other hand don’t believe in God. Atheists believe that if there is evil present in the universe, then there is no possible way God can exist if he is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. Evil is defined in three different categories: human evil (evil we humans cause), natural evil (not in our control, of the Earth), and sufferings of the heart (not necessarily human/natural evil). The argument for the problem of evil is that God doesn’t exist because evil exists. In

Every person in their lifetime will encounter love. Love is a necessary evil in our lives. Using the moral lense to analyze the short stories “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson and “A Bolt of White Cloth” by Leon Rooke, we see that love cannot exist without evil. The characters of the stories all encounter evil through love by means of relationships, goodwill, as well as inanimate objects.

Mencius believes that the essential element of both pity and compassion. Mencius states that these two competent are the beginning of humaneness.

In his 2004 City Journal article, Theodore Dalrymple expresses his view on the tremendous decline in the quality of life in Great Britain. He believed that society has accepted the notion that people are not responsible for their own problems. Also, that it is the “moral cowardice of the intellectual and political elites” that perpetuates the social dynamics that are responsible for the continuing decline of British society. According to the author, a physician about to retire after a career treating criminal justice offenders and victims, there are several pervasive misconceptions that explain the continuing decline of British society.

evil creates or brings good. Yet, if there was only good we would not have to

Makie begins with these three points. God is omnibenevolent, God is omnipotent, and Evil exists. A contradiction occurs when two more points are added to this list. If something is omnibenevolent, it is against all evil. If something is omnipotent, it has no limits to what it can do. With these two points being added, it proves an inconsistency within the first three points. Mackie is stating that if God is truly all good, he would wipe out all Evil in the world. This of course would be no great task for a being that is all powerful. If one of these five points were dropped, an adequate solution could be accepted. However, the majority of the people trying to solve the problem of evil will not abandon any of them. In Mackie’s paper, he takes a look at a variety of solutions, all of which temporarily do away with one of the five pretenses.

In his refutation of the atheist’s argument using “the problem of evil”, Thomas B. Warren denies one of Mackey’s “additional premises” to his basic argument; he stated in “Proposition W6”, “It is not the case that a good, omnipotent thing eliminates evil completely,” (Warren 1972). On this matter, I wholeheartedly agree with Mackey and disagree with Warren. A good, omnipotent Being (God) does eliminate eliminate evil completely; He would not be good if He did not eliminate evil to the greatest of His abilities, and being omnipotent, He possesses the power to eliminate evil completely. The problem with Warren’s proposition is that, whether intentionally done for the sake of simplifying his argument or a matter of simple oversight, it binds God to something He is in no way bound to: time. As will be discussed later, God exists outside of time and is not bound to it, because He is its Creator. To assert that God is not obligated to eliminate evil completely because evil exists in the temporal world, and then attempt to harmonize that fact with God’s goodness, is fallacious; it is binding God to time, and assuming that because He has not done something already, that He is not in the process of completing it nor will He do it eventually. This matter will be examined more thoroughly later in this writing.

We are all given choices in life whether to be right or wrong, good or evil, and many more. I think Dr. Jekyll would agree with the quote “We’ve all got both good and light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are” from Harry Potter. Dr. Jekyll created an experiment to separate the good from the evil because he wanted to act on his evil side without feeling remorse from his good side.

There are many themes for dealing with the problem of Evil. The one I would like to discuss is do specific evil result of specific sins. I believe some evil is a result of sin and some evil is not. A good example is David in the Bible. Erickson states, "A case in point is David, whose sin with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah resulted in the death of the child of David and Bathsheba as well as conflict in David's household. This perhaps should be thought of more in terms of the effects of certain acts than in terms of punishment from the God. We do not know what was involved, but it may well be that certain conditions pertaining at the time of the act of adultery resulted in a genetic defect

Some may argue that there isn’t any good in this world but I feel as though they are wrong. There are more good than bad, they just aren’t being shown to the public eye. Everyone does have evil in them and are very well capable of doing bad things, yes that’s self-explanatory but not everyone expresses their anger to the point of violence. There are not many stories on the news about good people who should be praised and honored for risking their lives for others. You often hear stories that are publicized about murders, homicides, rape and kidnappings. The media and society are slowly influencing people and increasing the chances of evil in the world. We are governed by our emotions, environment, and our intelligence. Sometimes people secretly

Ten children are killed every day in the United States by guns; people are murdered senselessly; Columbine High School; Over one-third of middle school children in Cascade County have used illegal drugs and over one-half have tried alcohol; innocent people in foreign countries are being wiped out (Kosovo); The Holocaust; Hiroshima; Vietnam; poverty, starvation and oppression in third world countries; Capitalism; environmental decay and neglect; the media; Oklahoma City; the uni-bomber; earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, airplane crashes; domestic/child abuse; disease, birth defects and mental disorders. Why?Why?Why?… The question never changes and is asked over and over and over and

“ Inside each of us there is the seed of both good and evil. It is a consistent struggle as to which one will win. One cannot exist without the other.” – Eric Burdon

Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, William Shakespeare’s Richard III, and John Garder’s Grendel _______ The topic of evil and from where it originates is one that cannot be proven through factual evidence, and so rather is a notion that exists only in the thoughts of each individual, allowing him or her to possess unique beliefs that affect the way he or she lives.

Mary Shelly’s book Frankenstein supports the theme Good Triumphs Over Evil by using Frankenstein as the bad and Victor as the good