The Problems of Evil and Suffering
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- Created on: 16-03-17 19:26
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- The Problems of Evil and Suffering
- What kind of God would let evil and suffering happen?
- - God can't be omnibenevolent, omniscient and omnipotent if evil and suffering exist.
- - God can't be omnibenevolent, omniscient and omnipotent if evil and suffering exist.
- -if he was omnibenevolent he would want to stop it.
- -if he was omnipotent he would have the power to do something.
- Examples
- E.g. of suffering: cancer, earthquakes, tsunamis.
- E.g. of evil: Hitler and the Holocaust
- Criticisms
- God could have allowed evil/suffering as part of a test or as a punishment.
- Suffering could be the result of human free will.
- What kind of God would let evil and suffering happen?
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