Identify key ideas associated with the problem of suffering. Examine two solutions to the problem of suffering.

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The problem of evil.

  1. Identify key ideas associated with the problem of suffering. Examine two solutions to the problem of suffering.

To unravel this question and to find solutions we first of all need to know what evil is, why it exists and what kinds of evil there is. We wake up everyday to hear about evil around the world, people being murdered, people dyeing in the result of an earthquake but do we know what kinds of evil they are when we hear about them? There are fundamentally two types of evil, Natural and Moral evil. Natural evil is evil that no one can control, for example recently in the news the floods in Australia killed 15 people to which they have counted and many more are missing, people’s homes have been destroyed and have no were to live in result of this. This evil is natural, no one could stop, control or be warned as no one knew this was to happen. Other examples of Natural evil would be volcanoes, earthquakes, disease, and tsunamis. On the other hand this is an evil of which can be controlled and is used by people who chose to do this damage to other people. Murder, rape, abuse, torture are all examples of Moral evil, a good example would also be the 9/11 in New York.

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Evil is an objective reality, this means that it is simply to difficult to reject its existence as we speak about evil, listen and hear about it on the television, we hear it everywhere around the world, this is why we find it hard to reject its existence. The existence of evil creates problems for the theists. Theism is the belief in a supreme creator also known as a God or Gods who interacts in the universe. The problem of evil is a threat to theists as they believe he is the ultimate creator, they believe he could stop or ...

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