As a Christian Theologian and Philosopher in the first century following the famous council of Nicea, Saint Augustine was faced with many problems in f...
DID GOD CREATE EVIL OR DID MAN?
Ever since the beginning of time our reality has been based on the conflict between good and evil. From the story of Adam and Eve to modern...
One of the most controversial ideas of medieval Christians was confirming their belief that “God is all good, is all powerful, and created “everything” while evil persis...
Scientific reasoning has brought humanity to incredibly high levels of sophistication in all realms of knowledge. For Saint Thomas Aquinas, his passion involved the scient...
In this research paper I will be discussing and comparing two theories of whether or not God exists. First I will discuss Atheism, and then I will discuss the Cosmological Arg...
1. In what ways did Plato and Aristotle influence Augustine and Aquinas?
a. St. Augustine was taught philosophy by Bishop Ambrose who studied Platonism. St. Augustine was one...
Aquinas writes that since the day of Aristotle, probably no one man has exercised such a powerful influence on the thinking world as did St Thomas Aqui...
The Problem of Evil + The Freewill Defense
This paper discusses the problem of evil that arises from the battle between faith and rationality. If the existence of God and e...
Dostoevsky: Why is there evil?
This story is about two brothers, Ivan and Alyosha. Alyosha is a monk and Ivan is his brother who doesn't believe or accept God. Ivan believ...
Damn That Evil
The problem of evil is an issue that is entirely too overlooked and dismissed by most Christians. I believe that it is a valid argument to renounce some...
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Accounting for Evil:
When attempting to prove God's existence one must account for aspects of the world that appear to be contrary to our understa...
John Hick argues in this writing that the all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good Christian god is compatible with an abundance of suffering. He offers solutions to the proble...
"I loved the happy life but I feared to find it in Your house and so I ran from it even as I sought after it. I thought that I would be miserable if I were kept...
It is impossible to taste the sweet without having first tasted the sour. This is one of the many lessons found within Genesis 2.0 and more specifically the story of Adam and...
Wicked, the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the East is a fantasy book by Gregory Maguire. It follows the life of the Wicked Witch, the character from the Wizard of Oz,...
In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy describes a lawless and godless group of men ordained to cleanse the West of lesser people. This group wanders through the West leaving a...
Basic Problem of Evil
The problem of evil is an argument for the nonexistence of God. The basic argument from evil against the existence of God goes as follows: premise one...