Theodicy

J.L Mackie spent most of his life making significant contributions to the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. Despite his several publications, Mackie is known best for his work regarding the problem of evil. As we know, evil can be considered a wide range of different things, but when philosophers encounter evil, it poses major problems for them, especially regarding the topic of God’s existence. Theists and Atheists both acknowledge the existence of evil, but they differ in the fact that theists

The argument from evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good God. It states that if there was a God with those qualities, then he would know about evil, have the power to stop evil, and because he is good, he would stop evil. If God exists, then he is omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good. If God were omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good, then the world would not contain evil. The world contains evil. Therefore, it is not the case

When I was a younger I used to ask my mom questions about God’s existence; why if there is a God would there be such Evil in the world? Why would God create things like “Cancer”? Why would God let there be natural disasters that kill hundreds of people at a time? Why are there such horrible people in the world that go around killing people, “Hitler” for example? These are just a few questions I would ask. The reasons why I do not believe in a “all knowing, all powerful, all good God.” For the monotheistic

see God’s concurrence, and how we have no power but through his sustaining power. Knowing these characteristics of God can lead someone to question God asking, why does he allow temptation, suffering, and pain? It is hard for us to fully understand theodicy; the view of how God is powerful, good, and yet suffering still exists. It is difficult for us to understand God’s concurrence with sinful acts. Sin is the reason why we have pain, suffering,

PHI1024F Essay two Topic 1: Does the Problem of Evil show that God does not exist? Justify your answer and respond to possible objections. Throughout history, billions of people have believed in the existence of God. Moreover, around 51% of the world’s current population is predicted to believe in God, enthused by a predicted 4200 religions currently in practice (Vlach, 2012) (Rey, 2011). However, throughout history, countless philosophers have attempted to both prove and disprove the existence

sacrifice the child for their happiness with no remorse because they are happy. "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is an attempt to explain the problem of evil. Collins writes "the narrative justifies or makes sense of a painful aspect of theodicy"(527). The question of the problem of evil is summed up in three statements: God is good, God is omnipotent and omniscient, and there is evil. The existence of evil is usually accepted as a given. If God is good, but not omnipotent, he wants to stop

God has allowed for evil to exist and to whom is to be blamed for evil to transpire, causing his influence to be prodigious as he attempts to answer the questions throughout his poem. This makes this poem extraordinary as he answers the question of theodicy from a distinct perspective that many in his era never dared to raise through stylistic techniques and thus should be honored just as Samuel Barrow would like it to be. Milton’s objective of writing this poem was to answer a question that many have

The Best Life (An Explanation of Ten Things I Want to Accomplish Before I Die) John Keats addresses a very serious issue in his poem, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be”, when expressing his feelings about what he wants to accomplish before he passes from this world and goes onto the next. He says, “When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,” (Keats 1-2). Here, Keats states that he is afraid that he will die without having left his mark on humankind

In this essay, I am going to argue that God exists. The three main concepts that I’m going to talk about which which are the problem of evil, the fine tuning argument and the moral argument. According to theism, God is: “that being which no greater is possible, and he is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent.”. By having a God who only desires good, and us living in a world where evil exists, it is logically impossible and that is what created the problem of evil. There are two sides of the problem

Dan, I found it fascinating how different some commentators were on their argument over the author of Psalm 22. One stated that author could have been Jeremiah, “on the ground, as he says, that it is “in the broad and flowing style” of Jeremiah, but this is mere conjecture” (Barnes 1870). v.1 & 2 not only define the theme of the Psalm, they seem to express stringently with a continual cry by the authors expression, “thou answerest not… and there is no rest for me” (DBY). In vs. 3-8 it seems the