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Why Does Evil Exist

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The Problem of Theodicy As believers in God we have had our fair share of questioning “Why does evil exist?”. Often we ponder why or how did God let something so Evil happen if he is all good. He has the power to do good, why not the power to stop evil?
Per The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Theodicy is “a defense of the justice or goodness of God in the face of doubts or objections arising from the phenomena of evil in the world (‘evil’ refers here to bad states of affairs of any sort).” With this said many of us have some been at a place in our lives where we question the purpose of evil and God’s inability to rid of us such thing. Many arguments can be made as to the purpose of evil, which also tends to be the problem of evil.
One suggestion made in the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy are “that evils are logically necessary for …show more content…

The notion of God redeeming evil and or suffering is the motivation behind this concept. God allows evil so that we as humans receive a moral message from the evil/suffering that occurs in our lives. Good cannot exist without evil and vice versa. Good and Evil have become interdependent one each other. If God stands for what is all good and the Devil stands for all that is evil, together unwilling working together but against each other at the same time. These forces can’t be controlled by humans. So, if God stands for all things good, why does he allow suffering? To test us? To keep the balance? To encourage us? Why not all the above? No one knows for sure but one can argue that all those points can be attributed to the allowance of evil. How else would we learn the importance of have the forces fighting for you and against

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