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Evil, as noted by religious individuals and atheists alike, is a term used to describe unthinkable suffering and inconceivable disillusionment experienced by any living being. This term, as used in such harsh connotations is deemed rather irrational when related to either the goodness and/or sincerity of an omnipotent God. There are many factors that induce many different opinions and inferences as to the existence of God as a result of such suffering. But, does the existence of evil truly place the existence of an omnipotent being that is subsequently also responsible for our happiness under scrutiny? Freewill, natural evil and religious conditioning in relation to human rationality all play integral roles in creating an argument, whereby on the grounds of evil, by the definition given earlier, a good and loving God would fail to exist or consequently consecrate His existence.
The first and subsequently more controversial facet of the argument in disproving the existence of God as a good and loving being, by introducing the concept of evil, is freewill'. Freewill, of its own accord and definition, is a term used to describe a being's ability to derive of decisions made free of any external force or superior being, whether that being be God or otherwise. If it were to be understood that freewill, in context of the above mentioned definition, was bestowed on us by God as an omnipotent being, it would seem as rationality suggests, that God himself would be contradicting the traditional meaning of the word. In allowing beings to posses the ability to choose
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regardless of external interference, God remains independent of freewill and is therefore not able to interfere with personal choice, regardless of His omnipotence. This is then
subsequently an inference that God, even in his omnipotence has nothing to do with the decisions made by being's, whether these decisions be either good, in the traditional...
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