Thursday, April 9, 2015

The Weakest Defense Of The Problem Of Evil Ever

Behold, the weakest defense you will ever read of the "Problem of Evil", my comments in BOLD. This is a prime example of why one cannot use logic to "prove" a point if your premises are not justified:
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" Not only can no mortal assert with confidence that there can be no good purpose for some suffering, because we do not know it, but we can affirm with certainty that God does know the good purpose for all suffering and other evils. Why? Because God is omniscient, and an all-knowing mind knows everything." 

How do you "know" with certainty that God does know the good purpose? How do you "know" that God is all-knowing?

"Further, God is omnibenevolent, and an all-good God has a good purpose for everything He does or permits. Hence we know for sure that there is a good purpose for all suffering – including the apparently unjust or innocent kinds – even if we do not know it".

How do you "know" for sure that there is a good purpose for all suffering?

"Let’s summarize this reasoning:

1. That we don’t know a good purpose for evil does not mean there is none.  

Yep, so what?

2. An all-good God knows a good purpose for everything, including evil.  

How do you "know" there is an all-good God and he knows a good purpose for everything?

a. Some evil seems to us to have no good purpose.

 Yep

b. But an all-good God has a good purpose for everything.

Unsupported by evidence that there IS an all-good God

c. So even evil that seems to have no good purpose does have a good purpose.  

Unsupported by above false premise

3. Therefore, there is a good purpose for all suffering, even that which we cannot now explain.  

Above premises are unsupported, thus, this conclusion is false

 http://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2015/04/08/does-god-have-a-good-purpose-for-all-evil/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ToughQuestionsAnswered+%28Tough+Questions+Answered%29

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