Judeo-Christian Concept of God and Evil Writing Assignment

Judeo-Christian Concept of God and Evil
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Judeo-Christian Concept of God and Evil
In today's world, the existence of suffering and evil seems to pose a serious challenge to the people believing in the existence of God. The people are beginning to ask themselves questions such as; why does God seems not to know all about the horrible things that are going on in our world if He is believed to be all-knowing? If He was all-powerful, why is He not doing something about the suffering and evil and therefore conclude that if He was all perfect then would not all that happen and instead we find that our world is full of countless instances of misfortunes? This existence of suffering and evil seems to conflict with the claim that there is God (Scott, 2015).
In this paper, I will be arguing that the Judeo-Christian concept of God is not meant to be false with the existence of God. This is because there are other explanations available, such as; the problem of evil and animal suffering, the Bible, which represents suffering and evil in twelve different ways soul-making, denies the existence of evil which has been witnessed throughout the human history. However, despite this existence of evil, humanity has tried to reconcile this problem with a Supreme Being God. The attempts to reconcile the evils has led to a denial of its existence as well as to an agreement that God exists. Through the teachings provided in the Bible, Christians belief in a “judgment day” in which God will give His ruling on humankind based on their individual evil doings. However, according to Irenaean theodicy, by Irenaeus, asserts that that one cannot accomplish love for God if suffering and evil does not exist. It is believed that Satan is the primary cause of evil. Judaism and other religions such as Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, Ancient Greek religion, But believe that experiencing evil and suffering is compulsory part of the soul development, Islam who believe theism, Hinduism, and philosophers and many others.
In his quest to prove that God does not exist H.J. McCloskey claims the evil that is being witnessed on Earth is an automatic indication of God’s inexistence. He also criticizes the religious doctrines and beliefs which detail the existence of God. He asserts that "Here it can be shown, not that religious beliefs lack rational support, but that they are positively irrational, that several parts of the essential theological doctrine are inconsistent with one another." He goes further to state that "Evil is a problem, for the theist, in that a contradiction is involved in the fact of evil on the one hand and belief in the omnipotence and omniscience of God on the other." All these assertions are not correct because he fails to explain the origin of evil.
Epicurus, a Greek philosopher, argues that there is too much evil for there to be an omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipotent God. He says that, if indeed God is there evil should not be existing, but instead, the world is full of evil and misfortunes. He, therefore, concludes that an omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipotent god does not exist. The modern example of which the subsequent version tend to expand on supports that God exists, God is ...