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The Problem of Evil

The Argument God is omnipotent and benevolent He could make the world good if He wanted to and He does want to --------------------------------------------------------------- The world is good The world is not good – so where’s God?

The Argument P1. God is benevolent P2. A benevolent being wants the world to be without evil --------------------------------------------------------------- C1. God wants the world to be without evil

The Argument P3. God is omniscient. (God knows everything.) --------------------------------------------------------------- C2. God knows how to make the world to be without evil

The Argument P4. God is omnipotent. P5. An omnipotent being can do whatever it knows how to do C2. God knows how to make the world to be without evil --------------------------------------------------------------- C3. God can make the world to be without evil

The Argument C1. God wants the world to be without evil C3. God can make the world to be without evil P6. If a being wants to do something, and it can do that thing, then it will do it. --------------------------------------------------------------- C4. God will make the world to be without evil

The Argument C4. God will make the world to be without evil --------------------------------------------------------------- C5. If there is a God then the world is without evil

The Argument C5. If there is a God then the world is without evil P7. There is evil in the world --------------------------------------------------------------- C6. There is no God

Objections Should the World be without Evil? Perhaps the best world has some evil in it Seems to be too much evil for that

Objections Free Will is the source of Evil Our freedom is part of the goodness of the world God could make us free and good

Objections The world is the source of Evil Maybe the Devil’s to blame If Free Will operates according to reason, the world must work according to rules, and those rules will produce some evil. Leibnitz: Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds

Objections Evil is a source of goods There’s too much evil to be justified this way