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Problem of Evil - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Explanation for both natural and moral evil
      - Compatibility with biblical doctrines
    - - Archeology tells us that the forces of nature have always even violent and animals have always been at each other's throats long before human beings arrived on the earth
      - We evolved from animals - we have not fallen but rather risen
      - A truly perfect being, though free to turn away from goodness, would in fact never do so
      - God wipes out the absence of goodness in his creation by building a torture chamber and tormenting the wicked for eternity
        
        Hell - question goodness of God
  - - - Can explain both moral and natural evil. If natural evil did not exist, there would be no need for these responses, which minimise pain and suffering, and maximise pleasure and happiness
    - - Disproportionate suffering
  - - - Epistemic distance
      - Hope for ultimate redemption
    - - Why be good in this life if everyone gets into Heaven?
  - - - Dynamic and rational view of God
      - Avoids the contradiction of omnipotence and evil
    - - Denies that there is a problem because it denies that God is all-powerful at all
      - Reduces God to the role of persuader
      - The liberal approach rewrites the religion to the point that it doesn't even align with the Judeo-Christian God
- - - - No suffering + freedom = 'toy' world
      - No suffering + no freedom = lifeless
      - Suffering + noo freedom = hellish
      - Suffering + freedom = this world
- - - - There is more actual suffering than could be justified by any set of reasons
      - Evidence
        
        A.L. Tennyson 'nature is red in tooth and claw'
        
        Dolphins
        
        Rape and child abuse
        
        Dostoyevsky, 'The Brothers Karamazov': child ripped apart by hounds