For many centuries philosophers of many countries tried to find out the essence of God and searched for different ways to prove his existence. There are a lot of arguments used to maintain or disapprove the theory of God s existence. One of these arguments that the believer must give good reasons to maintain the reality of God s existence is the problem of evil. The Problem of Evil is a work, written by Richard Swinburne. In this work the author tries to explain the reasons of the existence of evil in the world formed by an omniscient, omnipotent and ideal being, that is God. Swinburne states that exactly God gave us the alternative between acting in a good or in a bad way. If someone chooses to do good then that Good is superior to the absence of choice at all. This argument is weak enough to explain the problem of good and evil, but to make it clear one can read the book Cacodaemony by Steven M.Cahn. This work has something similar with the work by Swinburne, but Cahn asserts that the world was created by omniscient and omnipotent Demon. Taking into account that the argument for Cacodaemony is weak, one can observe how doubtful the existence of Demon and the existence of God is doubtful as well. In The Problem of Evil Swinburne states that the omnipotent God created the world. If this statement is truthful, how can evil be present in this world? If God, while creating the world knew about the evil and its future existence in it, then God can not be omnibenevolent. Logically, if God did not know that He was bent the world where evil would be, then He can not be omniscient. If God is considered omnipotent then He must eliminate any evil from this world.
As a result God is not such a being as Christianity describes Him.
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