Evil and Suffering Part 1
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- Evil and Suffering
- The Problem of Suffering
- Doubts in omnibenevolence and omnipotence.
- Hume: "If God cannot do anything about evil and suffering, then God is impotent."
- Mackie's Inconsistent Triad.
- Types of evil: Natural, Moral and Moral through Moral.
- The Book of Job (Supports Solutions)
- It is wrong to be blasphemous or lose faith in God.
- Job experienced much suffering, despite not having sinned. However, he accepted that suffering is part of God's plan for plenitude.
- Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov (Criticises Solutions)
- Evil and suffering is a price too high to pay for forgiveness and peace.
- Innocent suffering: Babies were tricked into comfort and then murdered, ****, burning of villages.
- Ivan responds in Protest Theodicy, suffering "is not worth the tears of one tortured child."
- The Problem of Suffering
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