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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