Problem Of Evil

Evil is everywhere. Everywhere we go, everywhere we look, we are faced with evil in a variety of forms. Not only do we see it with our own eyes we especially see it when we are walking in the streets of our city or our campus, but also television, radio and the newspapers shove the reality of evil in our faces all the time. Evil is considered a problem for thinking people especially philosophers actually everything is a thinking problem for them. Anyway, we want to understand evil and we want it to explain and make sense of our lives. But through religious connection evil seems to be broken down into two parts, which are there to explain philosophical beliefs whether there is or is not a God.
First it is important to distinguish between that there are two kinds of evil, and they are Evidential and Logical versions of the evil. When a disbeliever challenges his beliefs in God using the logical problem of evil, all that he is doing is stating that it is wrong and not soundly possible to believe in the existence of a good and all-powerful God who is surrounded by the evils of the world. Such a God would not let evil cease to exist if he is almighty and powerful. Therefore why is there evil where did it come from



 

 
   
 
  
 
 
 
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Because of this we come to decide that God can not get rid of evil without having to take time out to take care of other things that have the same amount of importance and meaning to him. This is a common argument used against the existence of God but it is a mistake to see it leading to non-belief in God. The argument presumes that God would, and could, do something about evil and suffering if God was so great, all-knowing and all-good but since there is evil and suffering in the world this simply means we need to ask questions about what kind of being God is. The fact that there is evil and suffering does not mean there is no God but simply that there may not be a God as people originally believed to be all mighty and all knowing. As far as many atheists are concerned it is humans, not God, who is responsible for evil and suffering in the world. Just like I also stated in class it is our first parents who had disobeyed God by eating the fruit from the garden of Eden and if!

4. Therefore a wholly good being eliminates any evil it knows about if it can.

If God is all-powerful and all loving why does He not eliminate evil? The existence of evil is seen as proof or evidence that there is no all powerful, all loving God. The deductive problem is the claim that there is a logical contradiction in asserting that God is all powerful, God is all loving and that evil exists. Wouldn't this kind of God eliminate all evil? The existence of God, on this view, is on an equivalence with a square circle. Given the existence of evil, it is impossible for God to exist. The problem of evil as classically stated is probably unlovable, but people who


Some topics in this essay:
Problem Of Evil, Atheism, Existence, God, Logic, Philosophy, Reasoning, Philosophy Of Religion,

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