Evil Vs Free Will Essay
Evil has always questioned the existence of a god. If god is almighty and powerful why does he allow evil things to happen? The question of whether there truly is a god has risen. If there would be a god would things always be good even though nothing would be considered to be right because people wouldn’t know of the word evil? If God were to be all powerful wouldn’t a god be able to do something about all of the evil happenings all over the world? Even if god truly exist and was morally perfect, then god wouldn’t god do something about all the evil. But even though we believe he exists the world is filled with numerous acts of evil every day. All of these facts seemed to be pinned against the existence of god makes people doubt the religion
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If God is supposed to stop all evil from happening or stop it before it happens he would be taking a human right which is free will. Evil existing make up believe in god more because of this all ties back up to religion, religion pushes to believe that there is a god if no evil would happen why pray to a god who believes has nothing for us. Evil pushes to pray to god to stop all is evil from happening to us so evil is necessary. “To create creatures capable of moral good, therefore, He must create creatures capable of moral evil, and He can't give these creatures the freedom to perform evil and at the same time prevent them from doing so. As it turned out, sadly enough, some of the free creatures God created went wrong in the exercise of their freedom; this is the source of moral evil. The fact that free creatures sometimes go wrong, however, counts neither against God's omnipotence nor against His goodness; for He could have forestalled the occurrence of moral evil only by removing the possibility of moral good.” (Plantinga,2008). God must have evil in the world so that the people would learn. Freedom would not be a thing if God was controlling what we did at every moment to prevent the evil. The evil is needed to create the good in people because being good is learned with mistakes and pain it’s not something you just catch
If God is supposed to stop all evil from happening or stop it before it happens he would be taking a human right which is free will. Evil existing make up believe in god more because of this all ties back up to religion, religion pushes to believe that there is a god if no evil would happen why pray to a god who believes has nothing for us. Evil pushes to pray to god to stop all is evil from happening to us so evil is necessary. “To create creatures capable of moral good, therefore, He must create creatures capable of moral evil, and He can't give these creatures the freedom to perform evil and at the same time prevent them from doing so. As it turned out, sadly enough, some of the free creatures God created went wrong in the exercise of their freedom; this is the source of moral evil. The fact that free creatures sometimes go wrong, however, counts neither against God's omnipotence nor against His goodness; for He could have forestalled the occurrence of moral evil only by removing the possibility of moral good.” (Plantinga,2008). God must have evil in the world so that the people would learn. Freedom would not be a thing if God was controlling what we did at every moment to prevent the evil. The evil is needed to create the good in people because being good is learned with mistakes and pain it’s not something you just catch