Evidential Problem of the Problem of Evil

Evidential Problem of the Problem of Evil

The world we live in is full of bad things, said John Hick, Pain, hunger, poverty, sorrow, wars, disasters and many other things. It makes us think, “If we were God, would end it all and make a better world!” They say that God is the creator, good, omnipotent and omniscient. If so, evil does not exist, a good being with unlimited powers and would not create an evil world - would create a perfect world. When we look at the world and its inhabitants are forced to conclude that God does not exist described above.

This is the problem of evil. How can we reconcile a world full of suffering with the existence of God? The problem of evil can be viewed from two different perspectives. On one hand, we have the believers, for whom the problem of evil is more of a challenge to the faith they profess, perhaps a Mystery of Faith, on the other, non-believers, who see this problem as an argument against the existence of God.

In this paper, I will address the problem of evil from the point of view and try to demonstrate that, contrary to the argument tells us, the world we know is compatible with God.

The argument from evil against the existence of God only arises when discussing the existence of God as is advocated by theists (Lee, 1998).

One of the ways around the problem of evil would be that the concept of goodness applied to God is different from that applied to humans, so, according to God's standards, this would be the best possible world, the problem is that, according this criterion, we cannot say that God is good, since this concept loses its meaning.

The argument from evil is extremely simple, and perhaps so very strong, possibly stronger than any justification or explanation of evil that we can arrange. If we begin by trying to explain or justify the existence of suffering before we can demonstrate its compatibility with God, we will never overcome the argument from evil our argument will be supported by a very weak base, serving anything against the solidity of the problem of evil.

What I argue, upon the discourse of John Hick, in this paper is that we can only overcome the problem of evil, even for those who do not believe in God, if we can prove the existence of a world without evil is a logical impossibility (Lee, 1998). If this is achieved, it follows that neither omnipotent nor the goodness of God are called into question by the existence of evil in the world.

If you think about it in the various kinds of suffering that we know, we find that all fall under this concept. I also noticed that most of the suffering we consider more serious, those who say incompatible with God, give up when the need unfulfilled desire is the type - we lack what we want, not what we ...