So, atheists generally take the existence of evil to be a decisive proof against the existence of God. We can formalize this argument as follows: 1. If God existed, He would prevent all evil. 2. But, there is …

Objections to Premise (2): If good and evil are in some intertwined, there’s some sense in which you can’t have one without the other. We shouldn’t assume that an omnipotent benevolent being would …

Its 27 chapters cover the crucial discussions and arguments, both historical and contemporary, that are needed to properly understand the historical development and com-plexity of the concept of evil. The …

Natural evil (also non-moral evil/ surd evil): Based on Michael Peterson, et. al., Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. 3rd ed.

It may be that the existence of evil, even intense evil, has the same end: it prompts us (or even shocks us) to action motivated by love of God and neighbor in order to reduce the chances of such evil in the …

It is the question of how we are to make sense of the specific moral difference between “evil” and “mere wrongdoing” that will be our concern. In order to specify this difference we will defend a specific …

Many people immediately respond to the problem of evil, as stated above, by saying that the problem with the argument is that it ignores free well. The basic idea here is that at least many kinds of evil …