Gods Goodness

Question 1

What is Epicurus summary of what he thinks

Answer 1

Is god willing to prevent evil but can’t ? Then god isn’t omnipotent. Is god able is god willing to prevent evil but won’t ? Then god isn’t good. Is god both able and willing ? Then where did evil come from ? Is god neither able nor willing ? Then why call it god ?

Question 2

Who is David Hume

Answer 2

An empiricist

Question 3

What is an empiricist ?

Answer 3

Only trusting things that you can prove with your senses through scientific discovery

Question 4

What does David Hume think

Answer 4

Since we know evil exists through empirical evidence , god either cant stop it or doesn’t want to. Therefore evil is a problem for god

Question 5

Who created the inconsistent triad

Answer 5

John mackie

Question 6

When you look at this triangle only…

Answer 6

2 out of 3 statements can be true at once

Question 7

What are the three points of the inconsistent triad

Answer 7

• evil exists
• god is omnibenevolent
• god is omnipotent

Question 8

WHO is john Stuart mill and what did he suggest

Answer 8

• the existence of evil is enough evidence to disprove god
• if god was omnibenevolent then evil would be distributed fairly but it isn’t suggesting a malevolent god