Evil__How_Can_It_Be_

Evil' How Can It Be' Evil' How can it be' If God is all knowing, all-powerful and benevolent, how is it that evil exists' The presence of evil in our society and the thought of the existence of an omnipotent God is known as Theodicy. According to Donald Musser and Joseph Price, the theory of Theodicy can be broken down in to three separate statements: 1) God is omnipotent; 2) God is benevolent; 3) evil exists. Now, the quandary lies in the truth of these statements. If God is omnipotent and is able to prevent evil but does not then He must not be a benevolent God. Moreover, if God tries to prevent evil but cannot than He is not omnipotent. In addition, if God is capable and well disposed of preventing evil and does then evil cannot exist. For us to debate this assumption further, we must first determine what types of evil exist. The concept of Theodicy divides evil into two different categories: Moral evil and Non-Moral evil. Moral evils are all the evils caused by humans, either to that individual or to others, which according to Musser and Price are “agents whose intent is evil, god, existence, death, world, humans, evils, theodicy, omnipotent, without, musser, much, free, avoid, able, through, suffering, non-moral, environment, disease, cannot, willing, very, therefore, should, price, prevent, perhaps, moral, learned, knowing, individual, hume, human, hick