In the middle of intense, prolonged suffering, we can have significant doubts about God's existence. Are these legitimate? How do we deal with them?
In the middle of intense, prolonged suffering, we can have significant doubts about God's existence. Are these legitimate? How do we deal with them?
The Problem of Evil is intended to show that God does not exist, but interestingly enough one of the premises it rests on--indeed, the most surprising one--can be used to prove the exact opposite: the premise that "Evil exists." How can the existence of evil show God exists? Is there a way to avoid this result?
My version of this argument is similar to that found in Robert Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods, though I think an amalgam of DCT and Aristotelian natures is the most convincing grounding of morality.