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Is God Morally Obligated to Prevent Evil? A Response to James Sterba [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2021
James Sterba’s book, Is a Good God Logically Possible?, argues that given the amount of significant and horrendous evil in the world, it is not possible for a (morally) good God to exist.
Joseph Brian Huffling
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On James Sterba’s Refutation of Theistic Arguments to Justify Suffering [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2021
In his recent book Is a Good God Logically Possible? and article by the same name, James Sterba argued that the existence of significant and horrendous evils, both moral and natural, is incompatible with the existence of God.
Bruce R Reichenbach
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The Problem of Evil and God’s Moral Standing: A Rejoinder to James Sterba

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This article is a rejoinder to James Sterba’s response to my previous article on the topic of his book, Is a Good God Logically Possible? Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible given the amount of horrendous evil in the world. If God did
Brian Huffling
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A Modified Free-Will Defense: A Structural and Theistic Free-Will Defense as a Response to James Sterba

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In his book Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba argues that the Plantingian free-will defense, which reconciles the existence of a good and omnipotent God with the existence of evil, is a failed argument when it comes to the terrible evils in
Elif NUR ERKAN Balcı
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Does the Analogy of an Ideal State Disprove God’s Existence? James Sterba’s Argument and a Thomistic Response

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This paper provides an analysis of James Sterba’s argument from evil in the world and the author’s Thomistic counterargument. Many authors of contemporary analytic philosophy of religion discuss the concept of “horrendous evils”, which is a ...
Patrik Hrmo
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Evil and Divine Power: A Response to James Sterba’s Argument from Evil [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2021
In this article, I offer a response to James P. Sterba’s moral argument for the non-existence of God. Sterba applies to God the so-called Pauline Principle that it is not permissible to do evil in order that good may come.
Elizabeth Burns
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