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Problem of Evil - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Is God willing but not able to prevent evil? Then he isn’t omnipotent
      - Is God is able to prevent evil but not willing? Then he isn’t omnibenevolent
      - If God is both able and willing, then why is there evil?
      - If God is neither able or willing then why call him God?
  - - - Whilst we cannot understand God's intentions we must trust them (tf???)
  - - - WE GET INTO THE HEAVEN OFF THE BACK OF SUFFERING OF CHILDREN WHAT KIND OF GOD DOES THAT TF????
        
        The entirety of soul making is not morally acceptable
- - - - Animal suffering
      - Creatures having limited survival abilities
      - Natural evils
      - Why doesn't God intervene to stop natural disasters?
      - All we have evidence of is an imperfect world which cannot be justified in order to believe in a perfect God due to our only evidnece being imperfect
  - - - By going through harsh struggles, a person has the opportunity to become stronger and gain compassion
        
        Some evil is purposeless though - children with cancer (BOOM)
        
        If all evil hjad purpose, we would know god is real and obey him exclusively to get to heaven, which defeats the whole purpose of becoming an autonomous, ,morally good person
- - - - Scientific evidence contradicts the fall, we evolved. Furthermore, we weren't all present in Adam's loins
        
        BUT THERE IS EVIDENCE FOR THE FALL, ya see it in the streets
        
        Augustine stole pears as a kid for fun, showing how even children are born w/ desire to sin
        
        EVIDENCE SHOWS WE HAVE SLOWLY GOTTEN MORE MORAL OVER TIME, if we really had an irresistible urge to sin then there would be no decline
        
        CHILD WITH CANCER - BOOM
- - - - Therefore removing evil will actually leave us worse off
        
        But a world where free creatures always choose good is logically possible, so a perfect god can create it
        
        However this cannot be done without removing free will - plantinga