I am human, so to praise evil is certainly not normal. Yes, i suppose it's philosophy, but isn't all religion? I am not an atheist. To withhold praise would indicate dissatisfaction with God's purpose for evil.

"Is God is willing to prevent evil but unable?

I have to say I dont know any Christians that praise God for evil.

Evil plants and animals if you will doing the work of God.

Things just ARE.

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So is evil in line with God? If He is both able and willing. Does that not say that evil has power over God. God obeys the laws of logic because God is eternally logical in the same way that God does not perform evil actions because God is eternally good.

God alone as the cause of evil are one- side and incomprehensible since they neither sufficiently exonerate man nor God from the problem.

If i try to place humans in a religious or spiritual context, supposing a deity, one thing still strikes me.Copyright © 2006-2020 Historum. Epicurean Paradox. All rights reserved.There is only a "paradox" if you believe in mythical, omnipotent beings who control your life.It's a self-created problem that doesn't exist in the real world. You must log in or register to reply here. History Chamber.

It does not account for the pain and suffering of things like rape, murder, war, or child abuse.

For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.As the ongoing thread opened by Robert165 has shown, the paradox of the apparent incompatibility of the simultaneous existence of evil and an omnipotent benevolent God is still ongoing, in spite of its long story. pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate On the paradox of evil and God. "Yup Padre", he said, "I like to consider my self a Christian as much as the next man"

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Why does a Christian praise God for the existence of evil? I'm just trying to wrap my head around thanking God for evil.Can we look at something like AIDS and cancer as a form of evil used by God make his plan happen? Evil is not the opposite of good, but the absence of it.

JimD is right in his thinking,even though I see what Gem is saying also.We should absolutely hate evil but realize that it has its purpose in God's perfect plan also.He allows evil but is storing up His wrath for it. Forums.

Sceptical Theism and the Paradox of Evil1 Luis R. G. Oliveira University of Houston ... many believe that the force of the evidential problem of evil depends on sceptical theism being false: if evil is evidence against God, then seeing no justifying reason for some particular instance of evil must be evidence for it truly being pointless.

For instance Hitler killed millions of Jews, but all of that evil helped Israel get back their homeland. I know everything has a purpose but Id rather praise God for letting me kill evil than for its existence. "Yup Padre", he said, "I like to consider my self a Christian as much as the next man"

To me it's a way to reconcile God with evil. "I agree with ryan, that we should thank God no matter what, but I cant thank him for evil. Religious History. Evil plants and animals if you will doing the work of God. It is therefore the thrust of this paper that though evil may be linked to God, he is not the proximate cause of it since evil may be part of a rational design for maintaining a perfect universal order.