If God were to exist, then why do we have evil? Evil things happen to good people so if God were to exist then why does he let it happen? When slavery was created, it was a time where white people would have black people as their slave. The slaves would get treated bad and would get punished if they did not do what they were told to do by the owners. The slaves would get punished by having a ball and chain around them to know where they were at. Some of them would even be sentenced to death when they would not do what they were told or just did not do the kind of job that the owner wanted them to do. The slaves would pray and worship to God to save them. They would even sing songs through worship to help them out during this evil time. So, you would think even though the slaves would worship God and God knew what was happening, why would this still happen to them? …show more content…
It is that the evil is created by humans and other agents. The owners of the slaves were the ones that was causing the evil to the slaves. The owners were doing the horrendous evil acts to get them causing the slaves to go through so much pain. It was a Free Will Defense and the owners were the prime example of the defense.
Agnostic and atheist people are overall people who disbelief or lacks belief/disbelief in the existence of God or gods. They would respond with that it is impossible to know anything about God. They would go along with the fact that Free Will Defense has nothing to do with God and that it is all human itself. Agnostic and Atheist people would not agree that God is the problem of evil. Since they are firm believers about God not existing then they know that God is not the Problem of