Why is there evil and suffering questions

Question 1

List

Inconsisent triad

Answer 1

1. God is all-powerful (omnipotent).
2. God is all-loving (omnibenevolent).
3. Evil exists in the world/God is all knowing(omniscient)

Question 2

Probelm of

Inconsisent triad

Answer 2

Only two of these can be true at once because:

• If he is all powerful, then evil shouldn’t exist, unless he is not all loving.​
• But then if he is all loving he would have eliminated evil, but he hasn’t , meaning he is not all powerful

Question 3

Inventor

Augustine theodicy

Answer 3

St Augustine

Question 4

Statement

Augustine theodicy

Answer 4

States that evil was never created by God, but rather humans, and that we are the only ones who can stop it

Question 5

Strenghts

Augustine theodicy

Answer 5

Good, explains why humanity causes all the bad things….

Question 6

Weakness

Augustine theodicy

Answer 6

How about natural evil, the one humanity didn’t invent!

Question 7

Inventor

Ireanan theodicy

Answer 7

St Ireanan

Question 8

Statement

Ireanan theodicy

Answer 8

States that evil was created to mature humanity, after Adam and Eve ruined creation, so that one day , they could rejoin him back in the Garden of Eden, knowing of the consequences of their mistakes

Question 9

Strenghts

Ireanan theodicy

Answer 9

Much better explanations for why we live in such a horrible world, and explains why we learn from our mistakes

Question 10

Inventor

Free-will defense

Answer 10

Alvin Plantinga

Question 11

Statement

Free-will defense

Answer 11

States that although our freewill causes evil, if God removed all freewill, we wouldn’t be able to experience/appreciate his goodness and love too, an unnegotiable price to him

Question 12

Strenghts

Free-will defense

Answer 12

The solidest suggestion to evil being present. Aslo solves the triad by saying that he is all powerful, but must let evil exist, for him to be all loving.

Question 13

Weakness

Freewill defense

Answer 13

Still doesn’t explain natural evil + If he can no longer be all loving without evil, does that make him not all powerful

Question 14

Inventor

The selfish gene

Answer 14

Richard Dawkins

Question 15

Statement

The Selfish gene

Answer 15

Argues that through the process of natural selection and survival of the fittest, selfish genes will naturally survive and replicate. In this way, suffering may be a necessary consequence of evolution.

Question 16

Strenghts

The selfish gene

Answer 16

Allows humanity to finnaly accept that evil and suffering is simply a part of nature, and although we can limit it, we can’t simply stop it/there is no such thing as world peace, esle there would be no competition or surivial=overpopulation

Question 17

Weakness

The selfish gene

Answer 17

Would that make God’s creation a loving one.One on which you must depend on the pain of others for survial.And even so, when someone takes it too fae, and commits the ultimate sin:the end of creation, would there be any competition or survial in the end, with nothing to fight.

War can only last so long, but peace can last forever.

Question 18

Summary

The Book of Job

Answer 18

Job was a good and moral man who praised God in all he did. Satan challenges God by stating that if Job suffered, he would turn away from God and commit evil. God allows Job to suffer, causing Job to question God’s goodness and fairness. God states that Job cannot understand God due to epistemic distance ( a gap in knowledge between us and God)

Question 19

Strenghts

The Book of Job

Answer 19

God has his own personal reasons for inflicting suffering upon a person, and most of the time, it can be for him to test our faith in him, when things go wrong

Question 20

Weakness

The selfish gene

Answer 20

Not all of his reasons are explainible by logical means, like WW2.Millions of Jews, died for an awlful cause, but for what resons.They didn’t beilieve in Chirstianity?Plus , God is meant to be all loving, so that totally defies his features

War can only last so long, but peace can last forever.