Moral Evil Research Paper
The Problem of Evil
In this paper, I am going to use the free will defense to prove that the problem of evil is failed. Free will defense can explain all moral evils (moral suffering) and most of the natural evils.
The problem of evils argues that if God is omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient, then evil should not exist in the world. This argument claims that suffering exists in the world, such as war, famine, plague and so on. Also, this argument doubts the existence of God, and atheists come up with some contradictions about the existence of God. If God is omniscient, he must know there is suffering in the world, and people are in suffering. If God is omnipotent, he must be able to shut down all the suffering or save people form the …show more content…
God knows the risks of creating a world which contains free creature; people may choose to do bad things, then moral evils exist. Also, God can create a world that only robots or non-free creature exist, however, the world which humans have free will is better than the world which only has robots. Suffering is the consequence when people decide to do the evil decision. Therefore, the moral suffering is not from God; suffering exists because people are misusing their free will. For example, wars, terrorist attacks, murders and totalitarianism are all happened from the free will of human beings, and they are not from God. People just use their free will to hurt or restrict others, so that suffering exists. Free will has been given to human beings because of God’s omnibenevolent, however, people use free will with wrong purposes and suffering exists; it should be the problem of people misusing free will but not the characteristic of God. God does not have to take the responsibility of evils exist because moral suffering is not from Him. Some atheists rebut that free will can only explain the moral evils from human, but it cannot explain the natural evils (suffering), such as natural disasters, congenital diseases. The natural evils bring a lot of sufferings and damages to the human beings, and they are not due to the free will of people. However, free will can provide an explanation for natural disasters. Natural disasters exist because of the original
In this paper, I am going to use the free will defense to prove that the problem of evil is failed. Free will defense can explain all moral evils (moral suffering) and most of the natural evils.
The problem of evils argues that if God is omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient, then evil should not exist in the world. This argument claims that suffering exists in the world, such as war, famine, plague and so on. Also, this argument doubts the existence of God, and atheists come up with some contradictions about the existence of God. If God is omniscient, he must know there is suffering in the world, and people are in suffering. If God is omnipotent, he must be able to shut down all the suffering or save people form the …show more content…
God knows the risks of creating a world which contains free creature; people may choose to do bad things, then moral evils exist. Also, God can create a world that only robots or non-free creature exist, however, the world which humans have free will is better than the world which only has robots. Suffering is the consequence when people decide to do the evil decision. Therefore, the moral suffering is not from God; suffering exists because people are misusing their free will. For example, wars, terrorist attacks, murders and totalitarianism are all happened from the free will of human beings, and they are not from God. People just use their free will to hurt or restrict others, so that suffering exists. Free will has been given to human beings because of God’s omnibenevolent, however, people use free will with wrong purposes and suffering exists; it should be the problem of people misusing free will but not the characteristic of God. God does not have to take the responsibility of evils exist because moral suffering is not from Him. Some atheists rebut that free will can only explain the moral evils from human, but it cannot explain the natural evils (suffering), such as natural disasters, congenital diseases. The natural evils bring a lot of sufferings and damages to the human beings, and they are not due to the free will of people. However, free will can provide an explanation for natural disasters. Natural disasters exist because of the original