Epicurus on God and Evil

"Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

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• otherwisesaid

[pennylaneproductions]

GOd IS sovereign..however, without yielding His sovereignty He has permitted choice. Thence cometh evil. Will evil ultimately prevail? No.

[otherwisesaid]

LOL.. wow...

I thought u would be a more intelligent and critical person. But that doesn't seem to be the case.If you're gonna just throw your faith out there, my channel is not the place.

We can disagree, but the discussion has to be REASONable.

Anyway, let me give REASON/CRITICAL THINKING another try.

"....Thence cometh evil. Will evil ultimately prevail? No,"

Just a question.

Did God create evil or did evil precede God?

('Cause it doesn't seem like me explaining things to you will work.)

[sumadartsan]

Nice excerpt. What video does it come from?

[otherwisesaid]

I got it from Jonathan Miller's 'A Rough History of Disbelief.'

It think it appeared in another documentary (Probably one of Dawkins'.)

Check Atheist Nation-Net. They should have them there.

[edwinisagholi78]

@danielmalpollitt I found an ingesting topic on natural disasters on gotquestions org

[danielmalpollitt]

@edwinisagholi78 The piece of writing that you pointed to here is very well written and unlike many arguments from Christian focused sites well referenced. However, it starts off by stating that there are two types of evil, I agree with the premise and the descriptions given, but the author only gives a Christian based explanation for ONE of the evils encountered in this world. They leave out an explanation for what I believe Epicurus and Lucretius are speaking of here; natural disasters.

[edwinisagholi78]

here is the Answer to this Bad Philosophy

Go to carm org and look for god-and-evil-a-philosophical-c­ontradiction

[madmaxxp1]

Epicurus: Pwning creationists since 341 BCE

[TheEndTimesAreHere]

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. ⎯ Isaiah 45:7

For when Thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. ⎯ Isaiah 26:9

‎But let him that glories, glory in this; that he understands and knows Me, that I AM the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD. ⎯ Jeremiah 9:24

[Coffeeisnecessary]

@freethinker923 Beause Adam and Eve caused evil to come upon the earth! Satan caused the quakes and killed the baby! Duh!

[nietzschescode]

@TruthIsLife7

of course maybe "warmed" but i meant harmed

[nietzschescode]

@TruthIsLife7

Comte-Sponville, my mistake for wrong spelling