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problem of evil - Coggle Diagram

- - - - inenaeus was an early christian, argued that god allows evil and suffering to exist
      - argued humans were made in gods image but they grow into the likeness of god
      - free will is an important part of being made in the image of god
      - by choosing to be good humans can develop into a freely chosen, mature relationship with god
      - evil has to exist for us to appreciate goodness
    - - Human beings were no created perfect but develop in two stages
        
        Image
        
        Spiritually immature. Through struggle to survive humans can develop into spiritually mature beings
        
        The fall is a result of immature humans who are only in the image of god
        
        Likeness
        
        Grow into a relationship with god
        
        Gods presence not always obvious so humans have a choice or not to believe in god
        
        According to hick everyone will be saved - universal salvattion but some need post death soul making is needed = purgatory. But this salvation needs to be earned
        
        ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness’
      - God is not responsible for us disobeying and turning to evil through our free will
        
        God needs to remain at an epistemically distance in order for us to mature
        
        Natural evil allows humans to reach divine likeness
        
        This world is a ‘vale of soul making’ this wold is where your souls are made, develop and grow
        
        Natural evil is a test
      - Evaluation
        
        Hume - ‘could not our world be a little more hospitable and still teach us what we need to kno? Does the suffering have to be so extreme
        
        Elie Wiesel - ‘trial of god’’ challenging god to keep promises found in psalms, job. Is such a god worthy of worship. Job worshipped god and was rewarded with riches and family, Wiesel went through holocaust and got nothing
  - - - The attempt to vindicate the justice and goodness of god in the face of all evil that exists
      - Those engaged in theodicies attempt to offer a framework attempt to make sense of the suffering in a world created by a just and loving god
  - - - Only evil when looked at from a human perspective
      - Earthquakes are just the natural world fulfilling their potential
      - Not evil, just nature - we have an egocentric view on these because they affect us
      - If it is because of god why is it some areas get affected and not all areas
    - - Caused by humanity turning away from its true potential
      - Evil that comes through the actions of mankind. Humans are free agents, responsible for their actions and the consequent results
  - - - Written by human hand, edited, by men, translation issues
    - - Original rejection of god by rebellious angels (moral evil) who ‘fell’ or turned away from god (natural evil)
      - Humans are created in the likeness of god but given free will
      - Evil was let into the world trough the misuse of free choice of Adam and Eve who ate the apple of knowledge of good and éveil
    - - We are seminally present in Adam and Eve = all guilty for the fall
      - We deserve punishment = natural evil is fitting punishment
      - Therefore god is not responsible for moral evil as it is through free choice of humans/angels
    - - God created everything in creation perfect
      - God did not create evil
      - Evil comes as an absence of good (cannot create an absense)
      - Evil is a privation ‘privato boni’
    - - Not gods fault for evil, god is not responsible
      - It is more valuable having humans with the gift of free will rather than just obedient followers
    - - Evolution theory undermines how literally genesis creation stories can be taken and how we are seminally present in Adam and eve
      - How could a good god let us suffer for what Adam and Eve did? Hell is a difficult concept, if god created it he must have anti picarde needing it - so why not change the plan
      - A perfectly created world should not have gone wrong. Cannot create something out of nothing - it was brought down by an apple
- - - - Arises from humans cruelty, violence and oppression
    - - The harm and suffering from natural phenomena
    - - God can’t create free agents without them doing bad things
      - Alvin plantinga - logical problem of evil doesn’t work. It is possible that god has a good and valid reason for not eliminating evil
      - Mary eddy baker
        
        Founder of Christian Science - evil and suffering dont exist - they are a construct of out mind
      - Buddhists
        
        Suffering is part of existence. Belief in no ‘creator god’ so suffering and evil is only a problem for those who believe in an all powerful god
      - Bertrand Russel
        
        Adds that god is used as a smoke screen - evil is just a brute face of life
    - - Devised the classic formulation for the problem of evil - known as the ‘inconsistent triad’
        
        1.God is willing but not able to prevent evil? Then he is not omnipotent
        
        God is able to prevent evil but not willing? Then god is not omnibenevolent
        
        If god is both able and willing then why do we suffer?
        
        Epicurus concluded that is is reasonable to suppose that due to the existence of evil, god is either not omnipotent or all loving or god does not exist
    - - God is not omnipotent or
      - God is not all loving or
      - Or evil does not exist
      - Too much evidence to deny that evil does not exist. God much be either impotent or malicious. Not the god of classical theism. Therefore god does not exist
  - - - Imagine a dorm that has horrible conditions, rate, no food and leaking. There is a closed door with management behind. The inference that the management knows about the conditions, cares and possesses resources to fix it would be crazy.
    - - Hume outs forward an evidential problem of evil. Hume is an empiricist ad approaches the problem of evil as such. He points out a posteriori evidence of evil in the world
        
        Animal suffering - why shouldn’t nature be created such hat animals feel less pain?
        
        Creatures have limited abilities to ensure their survival and happiness
        
        Why does nature have extremes which make survival and happiness more difficult
        
        Why doesn’t god intervene to prevent individual natural disasters