The Problem of Evil

Refreshing Our Minds

The Problem of Evil

The Only “Evidence” that disproves the existence of God

The Formation of the Argument

God Exist

God is All Good

God is All Powerful

Evil Exists

Defining God

“the uncaused, all-powerful, all-knowing, merciful, gracious, eternal Spirit whose personality and attributes are manifested in the pages of the Bible.”

God is perfect in all His attributes

God Is All Good

God is Good according to the claims of the Bible

Luke 18:19 NASB95

And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

God Wills Only Good

Romans 12:2 NASB95

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Evil Occurs In Our World

The Holocaust

Abortion

Antebellum Slavery

God Is Not All Powerful

God Wills good but evil occurs. If God were All-Powerful then He could take care of the Evil in the world.

God is either not All-Good or He is not All-Powerful

If both of these define who God is then He does not exist

God And Evil Cannot Co-exist

Definitions Are Crucial

What Is Evil?

Is It All Pain, Suffering, and Actions We Do Not Like?

How do we know when anything is misshapen or deformed?

The proper definition for evil is that it is the corruption or lack of that which is good

Solutions To This Alleged Problem

It assumes what type of world God wanted to create and leaves out all other possible universes.

This assumes God is not going to do anything about all the evil in this universe

It does not take into account freewill

The Problem of Evil

To say there is a problem of evil one must agree that there is a moral standard of evil

Morals can only come from a moral law giver

Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene