: Does the Existence of Suffering Prove That God Does Not Exist? Does It Make It Unlikely That God Exists?
The argument of evil is one of the most contradicting arguments in the philosophy of religion. This argument states that if evil exists how and why can God exist as well? The traditional theist believes that the definition of God is some superior being who is omnibenevolent, omnipotent and omniscient. This sums up to a being who is all good, loving, powerful and knowing, a being of such greatness is also known as God. Although this definition does create much problems to the argument of evil, which rises to the inconsistent facts of the world we today live in and lacks traditional support to theists. With having such an Omni God present, how do we explain the severity of evils that exists in our world. Many atheists would disagree in such the existence of God. They would argue that if an all loving or good, powerful and knowing being does exists there would be no evil because this being would prevent any evil from occurring but evil does exist so God must not. There are two kinds of evils that exist, atheists and theists also believe this. First kind of evil, is one of morally created evils, these evils are made by human beings themselves and the second kind of evil is, natural evils, that human beings have no absolute control upon whatsoever. Morally created evils are that humans inflict upon one another such as murder, rape, theft and so on. Natural evils are evils beyond our control such as earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions and so on.
Some reactions to the argument of evil is to just deny that any evil exists at all but this is a direct denial of a world we live in. There are debates on whether the existence of right and wrong is any different from each other but clearly they are very different, whether morally injustice or natural implications upon us. It’s like saying the Holocaust isn’t bad or good but it is clearly bad, it has severe impacts to our history and world. It caused much suffering and a crazed power battle and clearly brought a negative
Some reactions to the argument of evil is to just deny that any evil exists at all but this is a direct denial of a world we live in. There are debates on whether the existence of right and wrong is any different from each other but clearly they are very different, whether morally injustice or natural implications upon us. It’s like saying the Holocaust isn’t bad or good but it is clearly bad, it has severe impacts to our history and world. It caused much suffering and a crazed power battle and clearly brought a negative