By Chad Meister, James K. Dew Jr.
The query of evil―its origins, its justification, its solution―has plagued humankind from the start. each iteration increases the query and struggles with the responses it really is given. questions on the character of evil and the way it's reconciled with the reality claims of Christianity are unavoidable; we have to be ready to answer such questions with nice readability and reliable faith.
God and Evil compiles the simplest pondering on all angles at the query of evil, from the various most interesting students in faith, philosophy and apologetics, including
- Gregory E. Ganssle and Yena Lee
- Bruce Little
- Garry DeWeese
- R. Douglas Geivett
- James Spiegel
- Jill Graper Hernandez
- Win Corduan
- David Beck
With extra chapters addressing "issues in discussion" corresponding to hell and human origins, and a now-famous debate among evangelical thinker William Lane Craig and atheist thinker Michael Tooley, God and Evil offers severe engagement with contemporary arguments opposed to religion and gives grounds for renewed self assurance within the God who's "acquainted with grief."
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If all this were true, then it seems that evil simply would not exist. According to Hume, these two ideas appear to be logically contradictory, making at least one of them false. If so, then one idea or the other must be rejected. Now, since evil obviously exists, God must not exist. Commenting on Hume's argument, Pike clarifies why the classical Christian understanding of God should lead to the elimination of evil. '2 Now if this is true, then in Hume's argument, the statements "God exists" and "there are current instances of suffering" are logically incompatible.
This move strengthens his argument because it is hard to tell the degree to which some evidence counts for or against a theory without comparing the explanation with alternative explanations. That is, we can have a better idea of whether some evidence (our observations about evil) counts for or against one theory (theism) when we compare how well that evidence counts for or against a rival theory (atheism). A RESPONSE TO DRAPER There are similarities between the arguments of Rowe and Draper. As a result, a response to one may resemble a response to the other.
291 William Lane Craig and Michael Tooley Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Name Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 e wish to express our appreciation to a number of individuals who have been instrumental in the development of this volume. First, the contributors have done a superb job of expressing their positions and arguments in clear and accessible language-something not always easy to achieve.