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The Existence Of God

The Problem of Evil

The philosopher J.L. Mackie wrote a very convincing piece on the problem of evil called "Evil and Omnipotence," in which he attempts to show that one of the following premises must be false in order for them to be consistent with each other.

#1. God is omnipotent.
#2. God is morally perfect.
#3. Evil exists.

The problem of evil is a deductive a priori argument who's goal is to prove the non-existence of God. In addition to Mackie's three main premises he also introduces some "quasi-logical" rules that give further evidence to his argument. First he presumes that a good thing will eliminate evil to the extent that it can and second, that omnipotence has no limits. From these two "additional premises," it can be concluded that a completely good and omnipotent being will eliminate all possible evil. After establishing these added premises Mackie continues with his piece to list and negate several theistic responses to the argument.

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