That’s a phrase that I heard recently, and I think that it’s from some famous philosopher, but uhm…
I don’t know how to debunk it.
I’m doing my best to believe without thinking too much about that.
Some days it gets hard tho, so I’d like to hear you guys’ take on it.
Sad things, tragedy, and death are not the same as evil.
Without answering the question here, just wanted to point out that it’s a different question, so don’t try to apply the answers to one question to the other question.
You’re talking about ‘the problem of suffering’ not ‘the problem of evil’
yeah it’s not even a Christianity point to make. Who are we to condemn the happenings of Earth and it’s inhabitants just because it can harm humans? We are not above our planet.
Agreed.
Evil is a moral judgement describing a motive or agent (in the sense of something with agency, something that causes something to happen). Sad things, tragedy and death are not in and of themselves evil, they are the result of evil.
When a person does things that directly cause immense suffering on purpose, we can say the evil came from a human.
Now on to god. God is normally ascribed the properties of omniscience, omnipotence and all omnibenevolence. In addition God caused the universe to come into being.
As he is omniscient he knew the world he created would cause untold suffering and so either he is not omnipotent (i e. Could not create a world without suffering) or omnibenevolent (i.e. is fine with a world where the innocent suffers. (The comments have several versions of this argument done better than I could).
If we argue that it’s impossible to create a world without suffering, then what is heaven?
No, I’m highlighting the real problem of evil - that it seems inherent to the world that an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent created.