Problem of evil

How can God and Evil both exist in the World? I have asked myself this question probably a million times in my 27 years of life and I know I will continue to ask myself this question for the rest of it. If one believes in a higher power how can this higher power allow for such bad things to take place? Many people have this certain image of God as an all-wise, all powerful parent figure who would treat us as our earthy parents do or even better. But when something bad happens to us we somehow

role for human maturation; Overall evil’s existence is a necessity and actually beneficial to life. Evil cannot be disproven and it is beneficial to existence overall. Atheists and Christians alike may be troubled is the question of why evil exist? Why does God let evil exist? If he is all-powerful and good why would he do that? The idea of a forgiving omnipotent God allowing the presence of moral evil seems conflicting. We are created in his image, if God is good why do we tend to sin? To understand

B.C Jonson: Why do you think that God does not stop evil things from happening in this world when he knows what is going to happen next? Augustin: God can not stop evil himself when he does not know what is going to happen. God is not the cause at all evil B.C Johnson: But God has all these great powers, so how would he not know what is going to happen next? Augustine: Yes, God does have abilities beyond anyone or anything else, but God himself will not know what is going to happen next. This because

To say that someone or somethings is evil, we first need to understand what evil is, and if it even exist. Evil according to the dictionary means malevolent or wicked. So yes evil exists, but can we be truly evil? Yes, the deeds we do can be evil, but does that make us evil? To answer these questions, we look to psychopathes, historical politicians, and psychological experiments to really find out if someone can really be evil. The direct definition of a psychopathes is someone who is mentally unstable

solution was to stop leaving the house.” Additionally, Jacob didn’t try to resolve any problems instead he would just get upset and make things worse. To prove this statement you can go to page 42 in the book where it says, “He sprang out of the chair and shoved me so hard I almost fell off the roof. I yelled at him to get out but he was already leaving.” This shows that Jacob just didn’t want to deal with problems he just wanted to shy away from them. To conclude this paragraph, Jacob wasn’t very confident

living even after my death!” Anne Frank had wrote while hiding for her life during the Holocaust. Throughout time, mankind has chosen to be evil. The three things that prove mankind chooses to be evil are the cruelty of the Holocaust, the inhumanity of Eugenics, and the treatment in the Japanese Internment Camps. The first example that proves people chose to be evil is the cruelty of the Holocaust. The people in control of the holocaust were Adolf Hitler and his army (followers). The Holocaust was a

certainty attached is the basis of skepticism. Throughout his studies, Descartes introduced an idea that helped justify his argument of everything being fake. This idea is that there may be an all powerful evil being whose goal is to deceive one from reality. Descartes frames it rather simply as, “some evil genius of the greatest power and cunning, who has employed all his energies to deceive me”. While the claim is rather simple, that there exists something trying to mess with someone all the time, the

God, Augustine writes about the nature of evil and where he believes it to come from and what the purpose of evil is to the world and humans. He states, “Good thing prevail over bad, however: so much so that, although evil things are permitted to exist in order to demonstrate how the justice and perfect foresight of the Creator can make good use even of them, good things can nonetheless exist without evil…” By this, Augustine is simply saying that without evil in the world, good will not technically

Textbook definition of, evil is "What is morally wrong, what hampers the awareness of good" (Webster, Dictionary). If that is evil, previously what is good? Philosophers have wished over what evil is and why it occurs for thousands of years. They have elevated enquiries like ‘how can there be a God if there is evil?' This brings the questions to God's nature: he said to be all-powerful, all knowing and all good. Uncertainty this is the case, why does not he stop evil? In addition, since people

(divine command ethics) Now we might continue to dig into the arguments. The logical argument from evil in the twentieth century’s analytic philosophy formulated by J. L. Mackie which is built mainly upon God and evil. The premises of fundamental version would be basically clarified, as it is given by Michael J Murray and Michael Rea; a.1 if there were a God, there would be no evil a.2 there is evil a.3 thus, there is no God The logical process of concluding the nonexistence of God cannot be in fact