Problem Of Evil
Essays

Throughout history, the persistence of evil has posed problems for conventional theistic belief systems. Crime, pain, disease, and other "evils" continue to make the world what Hume called "a diversity of distress and…

¶ … problem of evil" by Michael L. Peterson, it is apparent the problem of evil is no one can to talk about it or even the good in the world. "There is something about the Susan Smith case that evokes our harshest moral…

This essay examines the problem evil poses for the idea of an all-powerful, all-loving god, and concludes that this kind of god likely does not exist. Although the most popular conceptions of god view him as an all-powerful, all-knowing entity, the existence of evil makes this kind of god logically impossible. Even if one changes the definitions such that this god is logically possible, it remains extremely improbably due to a lack of evidence, and as such a belief in such a god is not reasonable or tenable.

If God is good, and has created a good and just world, how can evil exist in such a supposedly good world, a world created by a good God? The Manicheans, of whom the early Christian philosopher Augustine was a member of…

¶ … theodicies and explains the problem of evil, focusing on the merits and the faults of this theodicy. The paper seeks to explain why sin exists among humankind and why bad things happen in nature.

Evil has always been with humanity. From the first man that walked upon the earth up to the present day, evil has been part of life. The purpose of this paper is to show that evil is everywhere, and that, while good is…

The problem of human suffering has been one that has plagued many philosophers, skeptics, and Christians alike. For some, it is difficult to understand how an all-good and all-powerful God could, or would, allow…