THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

The _ is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God.

• Denial of Evil

• Problem of Evil

• Moral Evil

One is to conclude that God does not exist because to deserve the name “God” a Supreme Being must have all three features in the first list.

• Denial of God

• Problem of Evil

• Moral Evil

Product of our actions and intentions

• Denial of Evil

• Problem of Evil

• Moral Evil

There is no evil or suffering. This response requires pretending that nothing is wrong.

• Denial of Evil

• Problem of Evil

• Moral Evil

God is all-powerful

• Omnibenevolent

• Omniscient

• Omnipresent

• Omnipotent

God is good

• Omnibenevolent

• Omniscient

• Omnipresent

• Omnipotent

God is all-knowing

• Omnibenevolent

• Omniscient

• Omnipresent

• Omnipotent

everywhere at the same time.

• Omnibenevolent

• Omniscient

• Omnipresent

• Omnipotent

consists of natural disasters and “acts of God.”

• moral evil

• Nonmoral Evil

This solution urges us to take in “the big picture” in order to see that the beauty and goodness of the whole depend in part on the shadows and tragedies that seem to us to be evil.

• The Free-Will Solution

• The Aesthetic Solution

• Justice in the Afterlife