Problem of Evil

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Mackie’s Logical Problem of Evil

  1. God is omnipotent

  2. God is wholly good

  3. Evil exists

  4. A good thing is opposed to evil (in that it tries to eliminate evil as far as it can)

  5. There are no limits to what an omnipotent being can do

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Evidential Problem of Evil

  1. There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse

  2. An omniscient, wholly good being would prevent the occurrence of any intense suffering it could, unless it could not do so w/o thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse

  3. There does not exist an omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good being

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Objection to Evidential Problem of Evil Premise 1

There aren’t any instances of intense suffering which God could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good

This greater good is free will, God would have lost this

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Objection to Evidential Problem of Evil Premise 2

Perhaps once God has set the universe in motion he can no longer participate