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Theism And The Problem Of Evil: A Critical Study
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1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The
purpose of this work is to bring out the work of different theist and
their different explanation on the problem of evil and the existence of
God and most importantly on how they tried to find solution or answers
to this very problem of evil and existence of God.
Before showing why
evil persist in this world created by God who is omnipotent,
omniscience and all-loving (which is the major aim of this work), if it
is a thing or not, then if it is a thing, who created it? What causes
it?
Why evil persist in this world created by God who is omnipotent,
omniscience and all-loving. And also a critical study of different
theist who try to solve or who gave their explanation and meaning to the
very problem (Theism and the problem of evil) at hand.
1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
The
importance of this study is to show why evil exist in the world created
by God who is all-loving, omnipotent and omniscience. The important of
this work is to bring out the different explanation of the very problem
at hand, the different meaning of evil and different ways theist try in
solving the problem. Most atheists or agnostics based their case on the
lack of evidence for God’s existence, they argue that we cannot claimed
to have a loving God, all-powerful and all-merciful and still allow evil
in the world, why a loving-God will allow suffering in this world.
The
most importance of the study is the explanation by theist why evil
persist in the world. Some theist claimed that evil exist because of
what is known as Greater Good Defence, it explains that some evil are
necessary in achieving certain good end. The good that is achieved
out-weighs the evil and the same or a greater amount of good could not
have been attained by any means that did not involved the presence of
those evils.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The scope of this work is
such that it would further strengthen on the fact that evil is opposed
to good, which is the integrity or perfection of being. The problem of
evil is sometimes abstracted to designate the ill affecting subject. The
existence of evil in the world would all times be the greater of all
the problems which the mind encounter when it reflects on God and its
relation to the world.
The problem of evil does not disprove the
existence of God, evil exist, yes, according to some theist, evil exist
but because man misuse his free will, according to Telhard De Chardin a
Jesuit intellectual, consider the universe as an imperfect mechanism
that is undergoing constant changes in terms of development, the
universe we inhabit has not yet attain it’s perfect goal which it is
gradually moving towards. According to him, the world is still in
process of formation, therefore a world or the process of evolution is a
world, which suffers labour and sins at every degree of evolution we
find evil always and everywhere.
1.5 METHODOLOGY
As would be
expected of a research work of this nature, much of the information for
this study shall be gathered from the primary sources such as book and
other library materials. This work will be centred on a philosophical
exposition of theism and the problem of evil.
This work will be done
by analyzing the concept of theism, and the various arguments for the
existence of God. And generally proceeds by looking at the concept of
evil, the various kind of evil.
In comparism to the nature of evil,
different philosophers have taken different views of the problems of
evil and our evaluation of this work will be value of the entire work
that is theism and the view of evil.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The presence of evil in a world said to be created by a “Being†who is not only omnipotent, omniscience and perfectly good is problematic. It is a problem that has perturbed man for ages and coupled with various natural disaster still make the concept problematic one. How can there be a loving God, all-powerful and all-knowing God and still face the problem of evil, if really he is perfectly good and created everything then where does evil originated from?Atheist or agnostics base th ... Continue reading---
