Sentences with phrase «allow evil and suffering»

Leading on from this students explore evil and suffering in relation to the qualities of God and discuss how God can allow evil and suffering to exist.

This is true, but it does little torespond to the conundrum presented: How could a benevolent God allow evil and suffering to exist?

So, to answer the question Why does God allow evil and suffering?

So we have a new first question, and it's not Why does God allow evil and suffering?

The question for relational theology is not so much why does God allow evil and suffering to occur but where is God luring us in response to evil experiences once they occur.

QUOTED ABOVE: We don't know the reason God allows evil and suffering to continue, or why it is so random

We don't know the reason God allows evil and suffering to continue, or why it is so random, but now at least we know what the reason isn't, what it can't be.

The author states «We don't know the reason God allows evil and suffering to continue, or why it is so random, but now at least we know what the reason isn't, what it can't be.

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Any so - called «God» who allows the level of suffering that we've seen on this earth is, at best, impotent and, at worst, evil or indifferent.

Even if evil and suffering is a teaching tool, an all good God would only allow as much evil or suffering as is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a greater purpose.

But I'd be confused as to why such a mighty being would allow evil, poverty, disease, and suffering.

Only a fool would claim to solve the eternal philosophical «problem of evil» (why God allows suffering), but part of the explanation is that you and I could demonstrate faith.

Not only has it given traditional theists such as Plantinga an «opportunity for an easy victory» but, more importantly, it has allowed such theists to avoid addressing the real question that evil poses: Given the incredible amount and pervasiveness of the pain and suffering that continues to be experienced by actual individuals, is there some plausible reason not to assume «that God is guilty of nonexistence» (ER 46)?

For just as pressing is that dimension of the theodicy problem which asks why suffering, perishing, and evil are allowed to occur in the first place.

On the one hand, I've heard that evil exists because of human choice and that suffering is the result of rebellion against God, but on the other, I've been told that fallen humans have no choice but to sin because it is inherent to their nature, and God sovereignly allows suffering to continue.

Above all, he simply couldn't comprehend what it was about the moral argument that had possessed her to become a Christian, especially in a world in which her God allowed such evil and suffering to exist.

A second problem with Hasker's argument is that, although he claims that he is arguing that God should allow gratuitous evils, he is in fact arguing that even the gratuitous evils are not really gratuitous, because they contribute to «God's intention to make us responsible moral individuals,» which from his perspective is a more important consideration than the relative balance of enjoyment and suffering in the world.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

The problem of suffering is usually posed as a question: «If God is all - powerful and all good, why does he allow evil to exist in the world?»

We as caring citizens with a heart will no longer allow evil puppy mills to continue making money off the suffering of any pet... The BUCK $ $ $ $ $ Stops right here and NOW.