Philosophy of religion

The atheist's argument from evil to the conclusion that God does not exist can be outlined as follows: 1) If God exists, then there exists a being who is omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good. 2) If there existed a being who were omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good, then there would be no evil. 3) But there is evil. C) Therefore, God does not exist. The first premise follows directly from the theist's definition of God. "Omniscient" is taken to mean "one who knows all true…

Question No. 1 Answer: Notwithstanding the traditional contentions for the existence of God, one issue has taken the type of a contention against God's existence: that issue is the problem of evil. One version of the problem of evil takes a purely logical structure: that is, it tries to demonstrate that the existence of evil and suffering is conflicting with certain traditional qualities of God. These qualities are omnipotence and goodness. Since God has both the methods and the motive to avoid…

The topic of God is often associated with two basic states of existence: one of great goodness and pleasure; the other, wickedness and suffering. The association comes from these experiences being discussed as evidence towards the probability of an immaterial mind, the generally accepted theist perspective being God is a benevolent, omnipotent identity who is good and thus worthy of worship, or being displayed as liabilities by the atheist perspective where it attempts to dissect that ideal…

Multitudes of people in the western world today ignore the belief about some of the supernatural, this I realize. The supernatural can refer to a multitude of definitions. The supernatural being of God is one definition or what the mass of people envision when they hear supernatural, evil. Demons, ghosts, and monsters, I would say that people today believe exceeding in this supernatural and less in the supernatural being of God. The evil supernatural is terrifying, especially if you reject and…

As the world is scientifically advancing, the existence of God is in doubt by many. I am arguing Philosopher Simon Blackburn’s claim that the existence of evil strongly suggests that there isn’t a god who is all-good, all-knowing and all-powerful is wrong. Since God is omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence, Blackburn believes the idea of God contradicts all the bad happening in this world. He supposes if god had more power, he would destroy evil. Since evil exists, then god isn’t what…

Our group’s topic is “The Problem with God, Evil, and Suffering: Theodicy & the Monotheistic Religions. For this portion of the Project, we split the research up into sections, and I’m focusing on aspects of God and evil within the Christian religion. I choose to examine the book, “The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil” by Brian Davies. Davies defines “evil” as not the common annoyances of our daily lives but refers to “a great or horrendous deal of badness,” (Davies) which he…

As natural theology developed it became understood as a means of demonstrating the existence of God through the reason and order of nature, separate from special revelation. This ideology, by replacing God’s gift of revelation with human ability, posed a severe threat to the established Protestant doctrines of the day. In 1934, Emil Brunner published his famous essay entitled Nature and Grace, supporting the viability of natural theology. Brunner’s thesis: “It is the task of our theological…

The problem of evil describes the argument that atheists and theists had about existence of God and evil. Atheists believes that God does not exist, but theists believes God does exist. There are two arguments of problem of evil: deductive argument (contradictory beliefs) and evidential argument. Contradictory beliefs are a set of beliefs is contradictory if and only if it is not possible for all of them to be true together. The six premises of contradictory beliefs are stated: 1. If God…

In the passage from Descartes’ Meditation, the conclusion is that Descartes now has reason to doubt all of his beliefs including those of his senses. The premises seem to be: (1) If an omnibenevolent god wouldn’t deceive us then there must be an evil demon doing so. (2) If an evil demon is our source of deception then one cannot know true beliefs. In the passage from Sweetman’s “The Pseudo-Problem of Skepticism” the conclusion is that we should not take the problem of skepticism seriously…

work, Evil and Omnipotence, sets forth a strong thesis in his argument challenging religious belief in God. Despite the problem of evil in the world, it is still rational to believe in the existence of God. Mackie argues the problem of evil in his philosophy, as he believes God cannot exist in the way theists believe him to be. While he maintains this belief,…