The
Problem of Evil |
Objections |
Hick's
Counterobjections |
If God is omnipotent, he can
prevent all evil |
Personalists--God is
finite in power |
Limited power contradicts
Biblical faith. |
If God is perfectly good, he
must want to prevent all evil |
Hick--evil is a
necessary possibility for persons to exist.
Mackie--God could create wholly good persons |
A"wholly good person
" is a logical impossibility, a meaningless conjunction of words. |
Evil exists. |
Augustine--evil is
not created by God but is the decay of good.
Christian Science--evil is an illusion |
The denial of evil
contradicts Biblical faith.
These views raise anew the question of the origin of evil |
God is either not omnipotent
or not perfectly good or both |
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