Emil Fackenheim believes that "God was at the concentration camps. We do not and cannot understand, says Fackenheim, what he was doing or why he allowed the holocaust." Emil believes that God was present in the concentration camps. We cannot understand why he didn't do anything and wheat he was doing but God was there. "God command the Jewish people form the Concentrator camps" Erin believes that the Jewish people died and are now with god.
Eliezer Berkaitts is an orthodox Jew, he believes that in Jewish History there have been other holocausts and Jewish people always ask 'How could God let this happen'.
Eliezers belief is that God let is happen because he gives people freedom, if people didn't have evil then their would be no morality. People are free to behave either well or badly. If they have freedom, then there is value in behaving well. If everyone behaved well then there would be no moral value in behaving well. God has given people the freedom to behave how they like, and some people like Hitler misuse their freedom.
Eliezer's belief in evil is that:
"Either God is all powerful, but if not wholly good and therefore allow some evil to exists.
Or that God is wholly good but not all powerful, and therefore cannot prevent evil
Or that he is neither all powerful nor wholly good.
The one thing the existence of evil clearly seems to rule out is that God is both all powerful and wholly good.
This shows his belief in evil and why there is evil in the world.
The three Philosophers all talk about the presence of God, and can he really exists because of the holocaust. They all come to their own conclusions about the theories of the holocaust.
There is a crucial difference between Berkoits on the one hand and Rubenstein and Fackenheim on the other. Rubenstien and Fackenheim rest their entire theories on the idea that the Holocaust was unique and that its uniqueness forces Judaism into new and unprecedented relation and transformations. For Berkovits, however the Holocaust, in a crucial sense, was not unique. Every time in Jewish History that innocent Jews have been prosecuted the same question arises, how could God let this happen?
Thus, like Rubenstien, Fackenheim total rejects any theory which maintains that the Holocaust was a punishment meted out by God to the Jewish people because of their sins. For Fackenheim, the enormity of the Holocaust puts it beyond the reach of traditional explanations of suffering and evil and calls into question nothing less than god himself.
My views on the Holocaust is that God can not exist. People may say that good and evil will weigh each other out, but this cannot be true. If there was God, God wouldn't but six million Jews to death, because of their sins, or because he wanted them to be with God. I believe that the whole idea that God did this for a reason, cannot be true, as what reason does anyone, or anything have for allowing something like the holocaust to happen. God is thought to be all powerful, so why did he allow the holocaust to happen?
I do believe in the theory that:
"Either God is all powerful, but if not wholly good and therefore allow some evil to excises.
Or that God is wholly good but not all powerful, and therefore cannot prevent evil
Or that he is neither all powerful nor wholly good.
The one thing the existence of evil clearly seems to rule out is that God is both all powerful and wholly good."
I believe that if there was a God he obviously cannot be powerful and wholly good otherwise he would not allow the holocaust to happen.
