Problem Of Evil

Answer : The problem of natural evil emerges from the presuppositions of theists with respect to God. They consider God to be good, omnipotent and creator of this world. Despite this, there are evils in the world. Philosophers David Hume has presented this problem in a dilemma.

If God has deliberately created evils in the world, then he cannot be all good. And if evils are there in the world in spite of him then he is not ....

Answer : The problem of evil is an age old philosophical debate. It is a problem for those who believe that God is all powerful, all-good and the creators of the universe. But if God is such powerful and all-good, then why does evil exists in this world. Is it so that God himself has injected evil in this world, if this is the case, then how can theists call God to be all-good. So, this culminates ....

Answer : The most weighty of the arguments against God’s existence is the problem of evil. Of all the atheistic arguments, this is the one that has been around for longest.

In brief, the problem is this: The traditional conception of God is as omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and benevolent. This implies that if God exists then he knows how to, wants to, and is able to prevent all suffering. If such a God existed, though, then he ....

Answer : This question has been tried to be answered by many Philosophers and thinkers from centuries. To say that theists have succeeded in explaining the natural evil in the world as a necessary counterpart to good is to say that only religion holds the knowledge of good and bad. And, it has not been the case.

Good and evil can be defined by non-religious sources too. And, whether these definitions become absolute or not it’s alsonot clearly ....

Answer : In the philosophy of religion and theology, the problem of evil is the question of how to explain evil if deity that exists is omni benevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient. Some philosophers have claimed that the existence of such a God and of evil is logically incompatible or unlikely. Attempts to resolve the question under these contexts have historically been one of the prime concerns of theodicy. Some responses include the arguments that true free will ....

Answer : In the philosophy of religion and theology, the problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of evil or suffering in the world with the existence of a God. The problem is most often discussed in the context of the personal god of the Abrahamic religions, but is also relevant to polytheistic traditions involving many gods. One example among many of a formulation of the problem of evil presented by Epicurus may be ....

Answer : Self-realization means self-discovery in the highest sense of the term. One realizes one’s oneness with God consciously. In order to realize what realization is, we first have to love our inner Self. The second step is to love realization itself. This is the love that awakens the soul. This is the love that illumines our consciousness. Love and you will be loved. Realize and you will be fulfilled. Can we actually feel our realization coming, ....

Answer : This statement refers to the human freedom advocated in the philosophy of existentialism. Existentialism is the twentieth century philosophy that stresses the individual’s freedom as a self-determining agent responsible for his choices and their authenticity. It holds that the notion that a person has an essential that is inherent determinative self is an illusion that existence precedes and determines essence, so that one’s self is nothing more or less than what one has become and ....

Answer : Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence are attributes which solely belong to God. God must be, to be God, each of these and all of these at the same time. All powerful with all knowledge and everywhere at the same time can only belong to God. None of the attributes has God taken to Him; all of His perfection is what God is. If but one attribute were found missing from God, God (as we perceive him ....

Answer : This argument has been given by the theist to prove that God’s intention is always good even if there is evil in the universe. God’s aim when he created the world was to make humans flawless, in his likeness (as in Genesis). Genuine human perfection cannot be ready-made but must develop through free choice. Since God had to give us free choice, he had to give us the potential to disobey him. There would be ....

Answer : The essence of the statement is that there is a super power which commands our actions. Broadly, then, the assertion that morality would never have existed for human beings without belief in a God or without a revelation from God is equal to saying that man alone should have never discovered the value of being honest and truthful or loyal. He would not even have had such terms as good and bad in his vocabulary, ....

Answer : First, it’s important to distinguish between two kinds of evil: moral evil and natural evil. Moral evil results from the actions of free creatures. Murder and theft are examples. Natural evil results from natural processes such as earthquakes and floods. Of course, sometimes the two are intermingled, such as when flooding results in loss of human life due to poor planning or shoddy construction of buildings. It’s also important to identify two aspects of the ....

Answer : If we grant the theists victory of the philosophical question “Does God exist?” we inevitably come to the question, “Does the God exist?” This seems a valid question. For if the ontological proof is truly correct, then it implies that some being “which nothing greater can be conceived of” truly exists. A skeptic will ask what these “great-making” qualities are that make God the being “which nothing greater can be conceived”. In answer to this, ....

Answer : The problem of evil (or argument from evil) is the problem of reconciling the existence of the evil in the world with the existence of an omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful) and perfectly good God. The argument from evil is the atheistic argument that the existence of such evil cannot be reconciled with, and so disproves, the existence of such a God. This discussion will distinguish between four different forms of the argument from evil: the ....

Answer : There are many similarities and difference Buddhism and Jainism. Both do not entail and godly figures though the later Buddhist sects introduced some Godly figure. In Buddhism nirvana is freedom the cycle of rebirth, when a being turns into a state of non- being or Sunya, looses its identity and become nothing. Nirvana is a state of Moksha whereas Being losses its identity and is free from the cycle of birth and death. The path ....

Answer : The religious problems in India have become almost chronic. The reason is very simple and obvious. There are diverse believes and sects in India. An individual having faith in a particular religion keeps little or no space for other religion, belief or sects. They are completely devoted and committed to their own religion considering it the real path to liberation. This very attitude has given rise to communal tensions refuting in even violence and spread ....