Evil And Omnipotence Analysis

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As time flows by, humans begin to question whether God exists and why has God not gotten rid of evil in this world yet. We will give the following three features to this god. He must be omnipotent; a being who possess unlimited power and control. He must be omniscient; a being who knows about everything in this world. And he must be perfectly benevolent; a being that is kind and does not wish any bad intention to anyone. A big reason that makes philosophers question the existence of God is the evident existence of evil. Mackie discusses the deductive problem of evil in “Evil and Omnipotence” from his book Mind. Mackie discusses the deductive problem of evil by giving us the following premises; “God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and…show more content…
Humans have the decision as to what they want to do, whether it may be the right or wrong thing to do. For instance, a programmer could use his or her skills to create a computer program to detect and eliminate viruses. Likewise, the person could used the skills to create an even more powerful virus to steal information from other computer users. If God was the omnipotent and omniscient being we believe him to be, He would have foreseen the evil that the human free will brings and would make it so that humans were inclined to choosing good over evil. God could make it so that each person instinctively chose good over evil. If God was to do that, however, then individuals would not possess free will as we know it because they cannot freely choose evil and would not be choosing the right thing by their own…show more content…
And, still more, how can it be the most important good?” (209). Mackie then introduces his conclusion that there are two different types of freedom: “… that freedom is a third order good, more valuable than other goods would be without it and … sheer randomness, to prevents from ascribing to God a decision to make men such that they sometimes go wrong when he might have made them such that they always freely go right” (209). I do not agree with Mackie’s argument that freedom we get from free will should be attributed to randomness because people still have the right to choose what they want to do according to what they feel or think at that moment. If I had a pencil, I could choose between writing or drawing something depending on the mood. Randomness does not play a role on how I decide to use the

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