Theodicy

The logical problem of evil is often referred to as the inconsistent triad, this being that the following propositions; God is omnipotent, omnibenevolent and evil exists, are inconsistent. Also known as a reduction ad absurdum argument, whereby all three propositions cannot be true together. Theists, like Swinburne, come to the conclusion that the three propositions are compatible with one another, whereas atheists, like Mackie, believe that they are incompatible and therefore God does not exist

or another in our lives, we are confronted by the existence of evil. With this confrontation, we are subjected to the many theories of why and how evil exists. We question the very existence of evil, its creation, the cause and the purpose. The “theodicy” problem, or the problem of evil, has been argued multiple ways over the course of many years. If God is so good and so powerful, why does He allow evil to happen in the world? How can a loving God allow so much pain and suffering, especially among

A thing that is omnipotent (all powerful) has complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding, and perceives all things, past and present. Free Will gives a person the ability to think and act voluntarily. They are allowed to be the authors of their own life and are able to reject that a human’s actions that is determined by external conditions or fate. That being said if we don’t have free will all actions by every person would be a direct expression of God’s will. The question is whether

No doubt there is horrific evil that exists within the world. Acts of violence, greed, and corruption describe moral evil that humanity commits while innocents suffer as well as the existence of natural evil such as catastrophic disasters and disease that plague mankind as well. All the while, a divine sovereign God who brought forth life governs over his flock of children that suffer as a result of these evils. The traditional theists believe God is all-knowing or omniscient, all-powerful or

After conquering northern Israel in 722 B.C.E., the Assyrians engendered centuries of political intrigue and laid the foundation for future unscrupulous kingdoms and idolatrous people.1 Once the Babylonian empire overthrew Josiah, the King of Judah, Habakkuk began to compose a prophetic book, questioning the ways of God. Above all, Habakkuk could not comprehend why “the evil circumvented the just”2; he thought that the impiety of the world did not correlate with a supposedly just God.3 Throughout

Author Thomas Hardy is typically distinguished for following a trend in which all his fiction is characterized by chance being the incarnation of the blind forces controlling human destiny. As J Clipper once said, “Hardy reflected Nietzsche’s agonized cry that ‘God is dead’, in his novels. His view of life was that since there is no God to give meaning to life, Man is alone in the Universe, no better and no worse than other creatures who live or have lived for a brief moment on this speck called

'god ' as sharing in being 'metaphysical '. Concerning the relationship between logical necessity or 'essential ' relation, against contingency, and its relationship to God, Leibniz articulates this in the following passage taken from the 'Theodicy ': "These essences and these truths emanate from the same necessity of nature as the knowledge of God ... God saw from all eternity and in all necessity the essential relations of numbers, and the identity of the subject and predicate in the propositions

Stump discusses the story of Job not to provide a theodicy or a defense for the issue of suffering, but to interpret a specific solution to suffering as it pertains to Job and his circumstances. Stump observes that contemporary interpreters often overlook the dialogue between God and Satan, believing it is not philosophically or theologically significant. In contrast, Stump uses the interaction between God and Satan as one of two main explanations for Job’s suffering. The other explanation is derived

Intermediality comprises the combination of the literary text with other media or forms of art, or the incorporation of such media and forms into the literary text. The combinatory mode, which is known from illustrated novels of the nineteenth century, gained new prominence in Alasdair Gray’s self-illustrated novel Lanark (1981) and in comic books or ‘graphic novels’ by writers such as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. With regards to English Romantic poet William Blake, both his lyrical Songs of Innocence

The Negative-yet-Positive Ubiquity of Natural Evil in the Universe and God’s Kenotic Presence in Creation With regard to the ubiquitous prevalence of pain, suffering, and death in the course of evolution, Pecocke sees both positive and negative aspects of natural evil. The increase in complexity that led to the emergence of consciousness was actually the consequence of the competition among species for better survival in natural selection. In that vein, the increase of entropy contributed the diversification