Why Does God Allow Evil Analysis

In “Why Does God Allow Evil” Richard Swinburne argues that evil exists in the world because of the existence of a good, omnipotent God. His strongest argument is that there is a difference between moral evil and natural evil and each are necessary for the world’s good. Therefore, any wrongdoings by an individual is done with intent through negligence, rather than an act of God. On the other side, in “Karma, Rebirth and the Problem of Evil” Whitley R.P. Kaufman, contends that the problem of evil is constructed around the assumption that there is a God and that is it a universal problem. Karma is not the justification of God for individuals’ wrongdoings, it is because what happened in the former life has a way of punishing you in the present.
Therefore, an individual cannot learn from what they did wrong. Accordingly, Swinburne believes that God will not intervene and that our consequences will have to be dealt with in order for us to believe that God will forgive us. We have choices to make because of that “fear” of being punished. We can do bad and suffer a consequence or have a choice and chose the right thing to do. If God were to intervene all the time, why would we attempt to do good or be good, moral people? If we never had an inclination that what we did was wrong, why attempt to make anything right. With Karma Theory we also do not know what we did in a past life to have taken on the suffering of the present life. It leaves you with the feeling that these sufferings are beyond our control and why are we responsible for a past evil deed that in our present form, we never committed. Ernest Nagel, in “Does God Exist?” contends that if God is omnipotent, then evil could not exist. But since there is evil in the world, therefore God does not exist. He believes that an individual determines moral evil himself, and that morality is also determined by man. We must also take into consideration that Nagel is a self-proclaimed