Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
the problem of evil - Coggle Diagram
the problem of evil
-
the augustinian theodicy
the contrast theory
-
-
Mary Eddie Backer - evil isn't a substance in itself, but a lack of the original perfection the world one had - corrupted by original sin
-
-
-
strengths
-
-
Alvin Platina - for God to have created a being who could only have performed good actions would have been logically impossible
God's omnibenevolence continued to show through him sending JC - reconciliation - 'for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son'
other solutions
-
free will (God's omnibenevolence) - we are the cause of evil - if we didn't have free will we'd be autonomer
-
-
-
Paul Draper - naturalism is a more plausible hypothesis for evil than theism - due to evolution, survival of the fittest ect
-
-
-
-