The problem of Evil and Suffering Part 1
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- Problem of Evil and Suffering- part 1
- Augustinian theodicy
- God is perfect+ He created the world= The world is perfect
- Evil is a privation of good
- "Evil is either sin or the punishment of sin"
- God is still all-loving by giving humans his only son for us to have eternal life
- A+E (the Fall Genesis 3) disobeyed God- thus evil is the result of humans falling from God's grace
- "The penalty of sin corrects the dishonour of sin"- God is just as he doesn't intervene + respects human free will
- Logical problem of evil
- Epicurean paradox- if God was all-powerful he could prevent evil and suffering however he doesn't
- Mackie- Inconsistent triad if God was omnibenevolent, omniscient and omnipotent he would be able to stop evil
- Therefore, All three statements are contradictory as they can't all be logically possible at the same time
- Concluding that God does not exist as it is incompatible w/ the existence of evil
- Evidential problem of evil
- Rowe- the existence of evil makes God's existence improbable or unlikely
- Criticisms of Augustine's theodicy
- Schleiermacher- argues how can a perfect world go wrong- whether it wasn't perfect to begin w/ of it was made to go wrong
- How can we chose to do wrong if we are made in the image of God who (according to this theodicy) is intrinsically perfect
- Evolution is proof of humans evolving not regenerating (or falling)- furthermore A+E aren't historical figures for most christians
- Nature is "red in tooth and claw" Lord Alfred Tennyson
- By calling evil the privation of good it diminishes feelings of suffering to merely a lack of something we believe to be innately within us
- It is unjust for people to inherit the sins of another due to the other person's actions- such as children who are innocent
- Support for Augstine's theodicy
- Davies- supports that evil cannot be a substance, meaning God isn't responsible for evil
- If God gave us free will then moral evil is inevitable to happen as it is made a possibility
- Swinburne- we choose to follow God, otherwise faith would be meaningless if we didn't go to it willingly
- Plantinga- if we were designed to only choose good we wouldn't have full autonomy
- Successfully accounts for the creation of natural evil as the loss of balance w/ moral behaviour
- Logical problem of evil- breakdown
- Premise 1- Evil + suffering exist
- Augustine argues evil is a privation of good not a thing itself
- Premise 2- God is all loving and powerful
- Deists believe God is impersonal and doesn't interfere, thus he doesn't have all-loving and good qualities
- Meaning we are humanising him and diminishing his power
- Deists believe God is impersonal and doesn't interfere, thus he doesn't have all-loving and good qualities
- Premise 3- An all-loving + all-powerful God, if he existed, would remove evil + suffering
- 1) God doesn't exist, 2) a world without evil is illogical, 3) God believes we need evil to understand good
- Conclusion- He doesn't exist
- If the premise can be proven to be true, then the conclusion is true
- If the premise can be proven to be false the arugment will fail
- Premise 1- Evil + suffering exist
- Augustinian theodicy
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