Evil and Suffering
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- Created on: 04-04-18 14:38
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- Evil and suffering
- Natural evil- evil for which “no non-divine agent can be held morally responsible for its occurrence.”
- Moral evil- caused by human action
- Logical and Evidential problem
- Logical - J.L. Mackie
- Inconsistent triad
- 'a wholly good being eliminates evil as far as it can'
- God's existence is impossible
- Rabeye Greenberg: "No statement theological orotherwise shouldbe made that is not credible in the presence of burning children".
- Evidential- William Rowe
- God's existence is improbable
- Touches on God's omniscience
- Some E+S unjustifiable
- Fawn in forest fire
- Brothers Karamozov - Dostoyevsky's book
- 5 y/o girl ***** and abused- God doesn't answer her prayers
- Logical - J.L. Mackie
- Hick's soul making theodicy 20th century
- Update of Iraneaus
- We are all children of God- born in image not in the likeness
- Godward growth
- Evil and suffering helps us develop. No E+S= no Godward growth
- Epistemic distance
- Universal Salvation
- Strengths
- epistemic distance- justifies evil as the ends justify the means (heaven)
- Being exposed to great evils allows us to experience great goodness
- compatible with evolution
- Weaknesses
- No good explanation for the degree of animal suffering
- Is the promise of Heaven enough?
- Universal salvation = unjust
- Free Will Defence
- No FW = robots
- Genuine FW= genuine possibility of evil
- Swinburne: if God intervened it would jeopardise human freedom
- Evil is the result of human action - God isn't accountable
- The King and Peasant girl
- Strenghts:
- Weaknesses:
- Peter Vardy- it doesn't account for natural evil
- Mackie- why couldn't a world be created with FW and the choice of always choosing good
- Predeterministic - God knew about the Holocaust and did nothing - not omnipotent/omnibenevolent
- explains moral evil
- worthwhile for those with faith
- accounts for some natural evil- Swinburne: death
- Always do good = not truly free -Hick + Plantinga
- Weaknesses:
- Process theology
- Arose from Alfred Whitehead, forwaded by David Griffin in God, Power and Evil
- God is part of the world that develops through natural laws
- Not transcendent/omnipotent
- Persuaded the matter of the universe into an ordered state
- Pantheistic relationship
- Roman God- Janus
- Partially responsible for evil, like a mother giving birth to a murdered
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- John Roth- a God of such weakness is unworthy of worship
- Why did God create a world that's out of his control?
- The risk was not worth taking
- evidence for the world being in a state of constant flux = God shaped the world
- explains bothnatural+moral evil- bc God lacks omnipotence
- Pantheism- God is suffering with us
- Weaknesses
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