Moral Evil Vs Natural Evil
The Problem of Evil
What is Evil?
Natural Evil
Natural Evil is all the causes of suffering and includes all evil caused by natural means – not by human doing. This could include natural disasters, droughts, disease, or even being killed by an animal. In all these there is no human perpetrator to blame for the “infliction” of evil. Natural is the broad term covering all these things. Natural Evil stands in contrast to moral evil.
Moral Evil
Moral evil is the broad term covering all evil where there evil “inflicted” does have a human perpetrator/s. This could include murder or rape or child abuse. These terrible crimes can only be committed by humans.
Why does Evil and Suffering cause a problem for Christians and other religious people?
The problem of evil causes a problem for Christians because Christians claim belief in a God who is Omnipotent (all powerful), Omniscient (all seeing) Benevolent (all loving), perfect, good and holy.
However, even with all of these traits, God does not …show more content…
In doing this he gave humans the capability to “commit” evil such as murder or rape without God being able to stop them. An argument against this is that if God is omnipotent then he would stop this evil being committed and therefore he is not because he does not and therefore cannot. However I would respond to this by saying that freewill is a gift from God because he is benevolent and wants us to have free will. This means that we can commit such evil deeds and God could stop us because he is omnipotent, however he does not want to because this would contradict our freewill and would mean that God is not benevolent. Therefore, because God does not stop us, he is still benevolent while still remaining omnipotent. This suggests that God is not in control; however, in control is not one of the traits of
What is Evil?
Natural Evil
Natural Evil is all the causes of suffering and includes all evil caused by natural means – not by human doing. This could include natural disasters, droughts, disease, or even being killed by an animal. In all these there is no human perpetrator to blame for the “infliction” of evil. Natural is the broad term covering all these things. Natural Evil stands in contrast to moral evil.
Moral Evil
Moral evil is the broad term covering all evil where there evil “inflicted” does have a human perpetrator/s. This could include murder or rape or child abuse. These terrible crimes can only be committed by humans.
Why does Evil and Suffering cause a problem for Christians and other religious people?
The problem of evil causes a problem for Christians because Christians claim belief in a God who is Omnipotent (all powerful), Omniscient (all seeing) Benevolent (all loving), perfect, good and holy.
However, even with all of these traits, God does not …show more content…
In doing this he gave humans the capability to “commit” evil such as murder or rape without God being able to stop them. An argument against this is that if God is omnipotent then he would stop this evil being committed and therefore he is not because he does not and therefore cannot. However I would respond to this by saying that freewill is a gift from God because he is benevolent and wants us to have free will. This means that we can commit such evil deeds and God could stop us because he is omnipotent, however he does not want to because this would contradict our freewill and would mean that God is not benevolent. Therefore, because God does not stop us, he is still benevolent while still remaining omnipotent. This suggests that God is not in control; however, in control is not one of the traits of