Theology: Monotheistic Religion

Is God Responsible for Evil in the World

For thousands of years already the adepts of the three world 's most widespread monotheistic religions , which are Christianity , Islam and Judaism , have been arguing for whether their deity is responsible for all the evil that happens in our world . Numerous books were written on this issue , and lots of disputes took place worldwide , but the answer hadn 't been found that would satisfy both the followers of those religions and their opponents . The believers deny the assumption that their omnipotent , omnipresent , and omniscient

God is also the creator of evil , while atheists use it as the main argument in proving the ridiculousness of religious beliefs

Lots of philosophers , politicians and theologians have devoted their works to the research of this issue . Moojan Moman in his book The Phenomenon of Religion writes : the presence of evil and suffering in the world has even been argued by some philosophers from Epicurus (341-270bce ) to David Hume (1711-76ce ) to cast doubt on the existence of God . Other more modern such as Freud and Marx sought to show that religion 's explanations of the presence of evil and suffering were based on delusion

The adepts of monotheistic religions reject this hypothesis because it conflicts with their statement that the God loves all of his creations In the notion of most people it 's impossible to love someone deeply and , in the same time , to make him or her suffer . Thus , the explanation of the existence of evil in the world for the common believers is that the deity granted free will and a right to choose to all of his creations , and if people choose to commit wrong and evil deeds , it 's not his fault . But here a question arises which 's why the omnipotent deity does nothing to stop the doings that hurt the creatures he loves so much

Other religious leaders explain that all the evil in the world happens because God wants to temp his adepts , or to give them a chance to become stronger through the trials he sends them . But if we look at this question from that viewpoint , therefore the kind nature of the deity would again be questioned , as a loving father , as the believers sometimes call their worshipped deity , wouldn 't have made his beloved children suffer to prove their faithfulness and devotion to him , or to help them develop some of the positive moral qualities and values

It 's obvious that a loving and caring `parent ' would 've given his children careful guidance to make them better . The Christians and Jewish also prefer to omit the fact that the superior creature , their God presumably is , wouldn 't have behaved himself as a capricious child demanding Abraham 's son Isaac to be sacrificed to him in to prove Abraham 's devotion

Christians disagree with the statement that God , who 's a creator of all life in the Earth , is also the one who 's ultimately...