May 7th, 2007
Accounting for Evil:
When attempting to prove God's existence one must account for aspects of the world that appear to be contrary to our understanding of divine presence. One question in particular that deserves attention is the existence of evil throughout the world around us. If, in fact, a Christian God does exist, he/she would then presumably be all good, all-knowing, and all-powerful, and therefore would use his/her powers to stop evil from being a part of our world all together (Leibniz 261). Gottfried Leibniz addresses this "problem of evil" in his Theodicy by offering a scenario in which both a Christian God and evil can plausibly coexist.
As Leibniz tries to validate God's existence, he is forced to rely upon certain defining characteristic from which we have come to associate with the Christian God. One such characteristic is God's inherent benevolence to which we attribute his teachings of virtuous living. This said, if God does exist, it's only......
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