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| | Logical Problem of Evil [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | Evil is a problem, for the theist, in that a contradiction is involved in the fact of evil on the one hand and belief in the omnipotence and omniscience of God on the other. | | | Since the logical problem of evil claims that it is logically impossible for God and evil to co-exist, all that Plantinga (or any other theist) needs to do to combat this claim is to describe a possible situation in which God and evil co-exist. | | | The logical problem of evil is a particular way of spelling out the more general challenge to belief in a perfect God that is posed by the existence of evil and suffering in our world. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/evil-log.htm
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| | World Religions: Comparative Analysis |
| | The problem of evil is a touchstone of any religion. | | | Man is not responsible for the evil in the world, but only the impersonal karma or the gods of mythology. | | | This means that evil is neither an inherent quality pertaining to God or to His creation, nor an eternal personal being (as in polytheistic or dualistic religions). |
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http://www.comparativereligion.com/evil.html
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| | Leibniz on the Problem of Evil |
| | The second, "the holiness problem," is one raised by a critic who argues that God's intimate causal entanglements with the world make God the cause of evil. | | | The first, "the underachiver problem," is the one raised by the critic who argues that the evil in our world indicates that God cannot be as knowledgeable, powerful, or good, as traditional monotheists have claimed. | | | As mentioned above, the main problem here is that God's character seems to be stained by evil since God knowingly and causally contributes to the existence of everything in the world, and evil is one of those things. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-evil
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| | The Problem of Evil |
| | Furthermore, the cause of physical evil is spiritual evil. | | | If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil, and he is to blame for its existence. | | | The problem of evil is the most serious problem in the world. |
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http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0019.html
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| | Problem of ... |
| | Problem of evil : Logical and evidential arguments from evil,Problem of evil,1710,Augustine of Hippo,Book of Job,Epicurus,Evil,Fifth century,God,Gottfried Leibniz |
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http://reference.allhyper.com/839.htm
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| | The Problem of Evil |
| | The problem of 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. | | | Most attempts to solve the problem of evil, however, question the second premise of a specific form of the argument. | | | Though each of these arguments presents a different problem for the theist to explain, a different reason for believing that atheism is true, each shares a common form. |
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http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/problemofevil.html
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Problem of Evil |
| | Either there is a radical dualism in the constitution of reality, a bad principle in opposition to the good God, or evil is a reflection and participation of the one ultimate reality, that is to say, a reflection and participation of divine nature in one of its aspects. | | | Not only is evil less extensive, less potent, and less real than good, it has no existence apart from the good. | | | For if the Christian doctrine be true, and we are discussing the problem from that supposition, there is no reason to expect an excess of happiness in this life. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=796
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| | The Evidential Argument from Evil |
| | Alternatively, if the believer were to question whether the existence of apparently pointless evil were to render belief in God false or improbable, he would be dealing with a different sort of problem -- the epistemic problem of evil. | | | The logical argument from evil is thousands of years old. | | | There are a number of evidential arguments from evil. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/nicholas_tattersall/evil.html
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| | THE PROBLEM OF EVIL |
| | The following are several of the main responses to the presence of evil in the world and its impact on the existence of the God of the Bible. | | | The presence of evil, pain and suffering in our world is the most persistent argument raised against theism. | | | In his arguments against God's existence, the atheist presupposes an ultimate standard of justice and good when he refers to evil. |
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http://www.xenos.org/essays/evilpo.htm
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| | The Problem of Evil |
| | In the context of abstract, incompatibility versions of the argument from evil, this term is generally used to refer to attempts to show that there is no logical incompatibility between the existence of evil and the existence of God. | | | The epistemic question posed by evil is whether the world contains undesirable states of affairs that provide the basis for an argument that makes it unreasonable for anyone to believe in the existence of God. | | | And sometimes it is to the existence of evils of a certain specified sort. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil
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| | Problem Of Evil |
| | The Problem of Evil permeates all things in this current wicked world. | | | One of the primary questions atheists pose is, "If God is real, and God created everything, why did He create evil?" | | | And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:37-39). |
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http://www.allaboutgod.com/problem-of-evil.htm
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| | Problem of Evil |
| | Rather, the theodicy should ideally be more illuminating of the nature of evil, and the reason for its existence, than other portrayals of reality, including atheistic ones. | | | Rather, such a theodicy must attempt to portray the world so that the hypothesis that the world has been created by such a God seems more likely than other hypotheses, so that those who accept this belief can come to perceive the world in these terms. | | | The Occurrence of Excessive, Nondisciplinary Evil Makes It Intellectually Unreasonable and Morally Irresponsible to Affirm the Existence of the God of Classical Theism. |
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http://www.anthonyflood.com/problemofevil.htm
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| | The Problem of Evil and Pain |
| | Attempts to explain why God would allow the presence of evil and suffering in the world are called theodicies (theos, god and dike, justice: “to justify the ways of God”). | | | In this seven part series from Sep. 19, 2004 to Nov. 7, 2004, we tried to live up to our calling as the new Israel (Israel = “the people that wrestle with God”) and explored how believers and theologians have struggled to approach some answers to the problem of evil and pain. | | | Evil and the God of Love, Second Edition |
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http://www.stjohnadulted.org/probevil.htm
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Erasmus-Extrinsic |
| | The presence of evil in the world poses a special difficulty for traditional theists, as both Epicurus and Hume pointed out. | | | Since an omniscient god must be aware of evil, an omnipotent god could prevent evil, and a benevolent god would not tolerate evil, it should follow that there is no evil. | | | Yet there is evil, from which atheists conclude that there is no omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent god. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/e9.htm
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| | The Problem of Evil |
| | Is God Less Glorious Because He Ordained that Evil Be? |
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http://www.desiringgod.org/library/topics/evil/evil_index.html
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