6. Miracles: Problem of evil
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- Created on: 18-06-17 11:18
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- 6. Miracles: Problem of evil
- Dostoyevsky
- Do miracles solve or add to the problem of evil?
- Tim Keller
- Eastern religions
- Suffering is an illusion, so we should not care much about it
- Western religions
- Heaven makes up for suffering
- The world is important as God resurrected Jesus Christ physically, therefore we should do something about suffering, not God
- Eastern religions
- Polkinhorne
- Unpredictability in physics means that there is openness in the future
- "agency"
- God can change what He has set
- God acts holistically with the world, can be working at quantum and larger levels
- Free Will defence
- Augustine and Irenaeus' theodicies suggest that moral evil is inevitable
- FWD suggests that a world of free agents is better than a world of 'robots'
- Seems reasonable that if God is good, He would allow his creations freedom
- Swinburne
- Agreed with FWD, if God had stopped evil (Holocaust) then He would be intervening with free will, and prevents genuine human development
- Strengths
- Makes logical sense, evil is needed for development
- Weaknesses
- Not logical for free agents to have only good options as the world is not like this, so not possible
- Mackie
- An omnibenevolent God would have made world containing free agents that could only ever perform/pick from good acts
- As this is not the case, then God may not be omnibenevolent, which further challenges the existence of classical mono-theistic deity
- Strengths
- Fits with monotheistic notion of God
- Weaknesses
- Not logical for free agents to have only good options as the world is not like this, so not possible
- Dostoyevsky
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