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Wittgenstein and the Pseudo-Problem of Evil
Theists believe that our world was created by an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. If God with such traits creates a world, we would expect that the world to have certain features. Such features should be compatible with God’s traits. We do
Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast
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Sterba’s Problem of Evil and a Penal Colony Theodicy
Sterba argues that God would be ethically bound to implement a set of exceptionless evil prevention requirements. However, he argues that the world as we know it is not as it would be if God were applying them.
Gerald Harrison
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The Question of Divine Omnibenevolence: What does the Hebrew Bible Reveal about Yahweh's Nature [PDF]
9 pages ; The portrayal of God in the Hebrew Bible as a whole is overwhelmingly positive. However, this perception of the Hebrew Bible God, also known as Israel’s patron deity, Yahweh, changes upon further examination of certain biblical passages that appear to portray a malicious, exceedingly violent Yahweh.
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Omnibenevolent God and the Blessedness of Evil: A Critical Analysis
The aim of this research therefore is to examine the problem of evil in relation to an omnibenevolent God, look at the possibility of the concept of the blessedness of evil in theological and philosophical paradigms.
Osagie Sylvester AIMIEHINOR
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An Analysis of Avicenna's View on the Attributes of God: Investigating the Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]
The problem of evil has been a challenging issue throughout the history of religious and philosophical thought. In the past, thinkers would rely on evil to undermine divine omnipotence, wisdom, and justice.
Saide Sadat Nabavi
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In this article, the authors give an answer to the question of whether God would be worthy of worship had He created (or even permitted) a world where no human action was freely done.
Davor Pećnjak, Tvrtko Jolić
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Is God Perfectly Good In Islam
Based on a question posed by global philosophy of religion project regarding the absence of literal attribution of omnibenevolence to God in the Qur’ān, this paper aims to examine how to understand perfect goodness in Islam.
Seyma Yazici
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Parallax Theology: Reframing Compensation Theodicy
The reality of suffering and the existence of natural and moral evils appear to present significant obstacles to the doctrine of God’s omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence. Theodicy is an attempt to resolve the problem of evil.
Victor L. Shammas
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Blackness and the God of the Oppressed
Abstract The state of blackness oscillates between two speculative positions: The first puts forward the irrelevance of race in the modern technological period, a view often coming from those who are colour blind and “optimistic” futurists. The second postulates the need to reaffirm the condition of blackness in a racist and capitalistic production ...
Hlulani Mdingi
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Abstract In what way does Kierkegaard’s conception of selfhood and despair address the prospect of nihilistic humanism wherein God, sin, and spirit are conceived as the creations of humankind intended to escape the distress of nihilism and imbue life with meaning?
Dallas Callaway
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