![]() ![]() ![]() God does not have the power to do anythingĢ. This assumes that “goodness”, “happiness,” and “omnipotence” are definedġ. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.’ This is the problem of pain in its simplest form. Initial Problem: “‘If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what he wished. Rather than solving it-were God other than good, as he describes himself, The very fact that we have a good creator as God creates the problem of pain If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable, youĬ. Or else He was, and is, precisely what he said. “Either he was a raving lunatic of an unusually abominable type, Moral teaching you must accept his teaching about his divine being You thus cannot write off moral teaching of Jesus, and if you accept his Men stand condemned of their moral failure regardless of theirĤ. Moral goodness/guilt is not result of cause & effectģ. Physical qualities, but inferred from physical qualitiesĢ. Note that dread & awe stemming from the created order are not Yet, if there is so much pain on the earth, why did human beings ever attributeġ. Has left to answer is the question of suicide”ī. Albert Camus (1913-1960)-“the only question modern man Man has the capacity not only to feel pain, but to anticipate pain In the natural world life is sustained through the death of other thingsģ. In the natural world creatures prey upon one anotherĢ. ![]()
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