Evil vs Godly A Debate
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The essential problem of evil as argued in The Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God is as follows: If god created the world and everything in it, and god is all powerful, all knowing, and all good, who or what created the substantial amount of evil in the world? In order to simplify these premises, one must first understand or give some definition to exactly what evil is and what an omniscient, omnipotent and omni benevolent god is (or is supposed to be). More precisely, what Weirob and Miller deem evil and godly.
In a generic sense, one would presume evil to be bad; a negative force seemingly serving no purpose, or as Cohen puts it simply, "...evil is causing unnecessary pain, or preventing harmless pleasure...". To the religious, namely Miller, evil is everything ungodly, undesirable and furthermore distant, separate from anything god created. To the secular though, evil is simply a name attributed to particular behaviors, thoughts, actions, ideas, etc...