Richard Swinburne's "The Problem Of Evil": God's Existence
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Philosophers have looked for ways to explain God's existence for centuries.
One such argment that the believer must justify in order to maintain the
possibility of God's existence is the problem of evil. In his essay, "The
Problem of Evil," by Richard Swinburne, the author attempts to explain how ....
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.... can see that the
existence of God is just as unlikely.
In "The Problem of Evil", Swinburne says that an omniscient, omnipotent,
omnibenevolent Being created the world. If this were true, how can evil exist
in this world? If God consciously knew He was creating a world in which there
is evil, then He would not be omnibenevolent. If God did not know He was
creating a world in which evil exists, then He would not be omniscient. If God
is omnipotent then He would be able to stop any evil ....
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