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Problem Of Evil Existence Of Evil
1,447 wordsIn a strong argument for atheism, J. L. Mackie presents the argument from evil. His logical argument for evil is comprised of showing theists beliefs to be inconsistent. He states that God being omnipotent and omni-benevolent is contradictory with the existence of evil. Though his argument seems to be a good one, Mackie does provide four responses, or theodicies that are possible solutions to the problem of evil. Three of these are that evil is necessary as a counterpart to good, evil is a neces...
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Problem Of Evil Moral Evil
2,266 words... own. But importantly, an omniscient being does not know what it's like to be human, and does not know feelings like hope and fear. God is supposed to be incorporeal, bodiless. A consciousness, if you will. So obviously, God can be neither male or female, because to be either requires a body, which God has no use for. In summary, God is incorporeal, omniscient and omnipotent. Since the development of the theory of evolution, the Teleological Argument has lost some of the persuasive force that...
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Problem Of Evil Heredity And Environment
1,652 wordsReligion Philosophy: The Problem of Evil Some people view the problem of evil as the most serious challenge to the Christian tradition. "How can God exist when there is evil in the world?" This question arises due to the nature of God. God is understood to be benevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent. If God is all-knowing, all powerful and all good he would know that some evil would occur, he would have the power to prevent it and the desire to do so as well. Consequently, there should be no evil....
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World War Ii Problem Of Evil
1,682 words... Also, if God lives within our linear time, he cannot know what we will do in the future. The future cannot depend on the past. For example, it is a fact that the Titanic sank before World War II. World War II happening depends on the Titanic sinking. However, it does not make sense to say that World War II is a cause of the Titanic sinking. The argument does not make sense and hence, God could not have divine foreknowledge while existing in linear time as humans do because foreseeing the fut...
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Belief In God Problem Of Evil
617 wordsWhat is the problem of evil according to Hume. Does the problem of evil present an insuperable difficulty to belief in God or can it be answered? Defend your answer. I think the statements presented in the dialogues to prove or describe the existence of evil does not interfere with the possibility of believing in God. In my opinion the meaning of evil or its existence is relative and not an absolute. The difficulty to belief in God in this dialogue is the lack of a reasonable explanation to unde...
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Problem Of Evil Divine Providence
11,041 wordsAugustineNoverim te, nove rim me: I would know you [God], I would know myself. Augustine wrote these words in one of his earliest works, but they retained their force throughout his lifetime. [ 2 ] The irrefutable solipsism of self confronted with the absolute reality of God, the wholly other: all of Augustine's thought moves between those two poles. But those poles were not far distant from one another, with vast uncharted territory between. Rather, they were elements of an intimate personal re...
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God Is All Powerful Problem Of Evil
950 wordsPROBLEM OF EVIL One of the major arguments proposed against the existence of God in contemporary western philosophy is the problem of evil. It is based upon the inability to reconcile the magnitude of evil in the world with the all-loving nature of God. John Hick describes the problem from the perspective of its proponent, If God is perfectly loving, God must wish to abolish all evil; and if God is all-powerful, God must be able to abolish all evil. But evil exists; therefore God cannot be both ...
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Problem Of Evil Ability To Choose
1,633 wordsThe Free Will Defense and The Problem of Evil After the World War II and the Holocaust, many Jewish and Christian people were left wondering why God would let such a thing happen. Many felt estranged, as if God had somehow abandoned them in their most desperate time of need. The world needed an explanation as to why God would let such a thing happen to his so-called? children? . This need for an explanation of why evil exists in a world that is supposed to have been created by an all-powerful an...
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Jack And His Hunters Lord Of The Flies
2,173 wordsThis was one of the most interesting books I have ever read. It is very addictive and very well written. Though I am a slow reader, it did not take long for me to finish it. I spent four days reading this book and on weekends I put it down during meals. Lord of the Flies kept my interest with very little slow moving dialogue and lots of vivid description. The thing I probably liked the most about Lord of the flies was the theme of the story. This topic was very intriguing. It dealt with many fla...
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Didn Acute T Existence Of Evil
738 wordsThe Problem of Evil and Suffering A theodicy is a vindication of God´ s goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil. It challenges the truth of his existence, as God is told to be almighty and powerful and all moral, yet evil and suffering still occurs. Different theodicies arise from different points of view. In this instance the views of Irenaeus and Augustine; two philosophers from a similar, historic background. Augustine´ s theodicy defends God in a sense, through ...
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Problem Of Evil God Created
399 wordsVoltaire s and Leibnizian s comparison of philosophical values Candide is a book about the problem of evil. In the book it explains that evil is inconsistent in saying that God created the world, God is perfectly good, human beings are free and the evils resulting from freedom are greater than the goods resulting from that of freedom. To talk about the free will of humans according to Voltaire means that free will is like a cost-benefit analysis. It is believed that the benefits of endowing huma...
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Problem Of Evil Doesn T
1,299 wordsI do not believe that evil as we typically understand it exists in the world. I believe that what we perceive as evil is simply our misdirected use of the good that God provides. The reason that we even have an experience of perceived evil is because for the soul to experience itself as any particular thing, the exact opposite of that thing must come into the space. In other words, in this relative existence, hot cannot be hot without cold, tall cannot be tall without short, and you cannot be yo...
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