the presence of evil, they must conclude that God wishes to ignore those who feel needless and who are suffering, but cannot; thus limiting his power. On the contrary, they can admit that God does not want to prevent evil in which case, they may conclude that God himself is not morally good. Many Christians have the mindset that God should prevent evil but does not want to because they need to find solutions themselves. Philo is not concerned nor bothered with the problem of evil, for it is a challenge
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not without God’s power to create a world containing moral good without creating one containing moral evil. 3. God created a world containing moral good. 4. Therefore, God created a world containing moral evil. 5. Therefore, evil exists. How does faith inform how we view evil? There are two approaches that can explain faith and how we view evil. Nash asserts there is moral evil and natural evil and both are found in deductive and inductive forms. The deductive form tends to cause from a Christian
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arguments in most cases focus in the problem of evil. In his attempt to refute the cosmological argument, McCloskey makes the claim that when a theist uses this argument, he has not “thought far enough nor hard enough about the problem of an uncaused cause."[2] It is upon making this statement that McCloskey’s bias takes center stage. The author expects the theist to explain what he himself cannot explain about his own position. McCloskey’s initial problem with the cosmological argument is that
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Evil, it is inside all of us; it is sitting in wait. Therefore, ‘evil’ does not exist, it is simply a word used to express an act considered profoundly unforgiving or wrong within a society. It is a word that describes the thing we fear most in ourselves. So we categorize it as heinous and wrong. We categorize those who commit those actions as evil. We fear we can commit these acts on our own will. A person who acts on their own will to the monster that brews within is an abnormality within society;
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characteristics: 1. Cosmogony (Origin of the Universe) 2. Nature of God 3. View of Human Nature 4. View of Good and Evil 5. View of “Salvation” 6. View of an Afterlife 7. Practices and Rituals 8. Celebrations and Festivals From these eight facets of religions, I chose the View of Good and Evil. The reason is because people’s view of good and evil helps steer an individual’s actions toward other people and the surrounding environment. Individuals will find other people of like
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The problem of evil and suffering is that it challenges the existence of God. J.L Mackie argued that the existence of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God was not compatible because of the existence of evil, this created the inconsistent triad. Mackie said that “if God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent how can there be evil and suffering in the world”. An all powerful God could stop evil, yet it exists. An all loving God would want to stop evil, yet it exists. Evil doesn’t exist as an entity on its
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A Dialogue between a Rabbi and an Atheist about the Problem of Evil (On a sunny Monday morning in Ukraine, Rabbi Samuel Goldfarb is taking a leisurely walk through the town marketplace. The Rabbi is well loved and respected in the community, always exchanging greeting with the townspeople. He comes upon a newcomer to the town, Radical Enchain, whom he does not recognize and starts a polite conversation with him.) Rabbi: Top of the morning to you sir. My name is Rabbi Samuel Goldfarb. I would
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to your heart. McCloskey refers to the arguments that Christians used to defend God as being above all and the creator a lie based on the fact that evil still exist in this cruel world. God is said to be a man of peace and love but yet evil still exist in this world. “God is supposed to be omnipotent and has the power to stop evil.”(The Problem of Evil) McCloskey believes that the world exist because of evolution and not because it was created by God. The world consist of objects that has no purpose
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Daniel Fontenelle Ms. A. Chabreck English-IV-H-A 6 May 2016 Evolution of Evil in Macbeth In Macbeth, the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth undergo drastic changes as the play unfolds. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth regress from logical and human like people, into evil characters that would be found in a horror film. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth seem like two usual human beings, but after hearing about possibly becoming king and queen these characters turn to the
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a more reasonable and comfortable belief than that of Christianity. McCloskey argued against the three theistic proofs, which are the cosmological argument, the teleological argument and the argument from design. He pointed out the existence of evil in the world that God made. He also pointed out that it is irrational to live by faith. According to McCloskey, proofs do not necessarily play a vital role in the belief of God. Page 62 of the article states that "most theists do not come to believe
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