Problem Of Evil Flashcards
Moral evil
Caused by humans
Natural evil
Not caused by humans
Evidential
Our experience includes suffering
Inductively infer god can’t exist
Suffering in unfair and purposeless
What 3 things does the logical problem involve
Evil/suffering. Omnipotent. Ominbenevolent
Logical problem
Deductive argument
Logically incompatible with gods existence
Augustinian
Emphasis on free will
We have freedom
Could use form bad
Better than being passively determined
This is best possible world
What does mackie think there is
A third choice
What’s in mackie a third choice
Have free will
Always chose good
Mackie
Logically possible to always choose good
God can do anything logically possible
Create third world
He didn’t so not omnipotent or onnibenevolent
Who responded to mackie
Plantinga
What did Plantinga think
It was logically possible for god and evil to co exist
Explain transworld depravity
In any possible world curly smith exists
Curly is genuinely free
He’ll face significant moral issues
Make wrong choice at least once
What does transforms depravity show
All of us make workgroup choices at least once ok every possible world
God would have know in wasn’t possible to create a world with no suffering and having free will
What does hick believe in
Soul making
What are the steps of soul making
Free will – difficult situations – make right choice – spritial growth – closer to god
