Friday, June 7, 2013

Articulate the main features of the logical problem of evil and the main objection raised against it. Articulate the main features of the evidential...

The problem
of evil is not just one main problem but several arguments grouped together against the
existence of God. Thus, it is a concept present in ethics, philosophy, theism, theology, and
religion (mainly the monotheistic religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam, but it is also
characteristic of Budhaism and Hinduism).

A theist would claim that an
omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God certainly exists. Ironically, the problem of evil
uses precisely this claim as evidence against the existence of such a God. Thus, a theologian or
a philosopher would ask the question: if an all-knowing, all-seeing, and perfectly good and
infinitely benevolent being such as God (or other supreme deity) truly exists, and has power
over the entire universe, than why does he/she/it allow evil in its most basic and complicated
forms to exist as well?

There are two main types or forms of the problem of
evil: the logical problem of evil and the evidental problem of evil.


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