RE: Help me refute the "suffering will be insignificant in heaven" theodicy
November 14, 2024 at 11:16 pm
(November 14, 2024 at 10:09 pm)Modern Atheism Wrote: Hi guy, I am making a video refuting some responses to the problem of evil, and I would like some help refuting a response. The response is that the suffering human beings endure on earth will be insignificant when we are in heaven, and it will almost look just like a bad dream. What would you guys say to that?
Why would a perfectly good, omnipotent god require suffering for redemption at all?
(November 14, 2024 at 10:09 pm)Modern Atheism Wrote: Another common theodicy is the greater good defence. It's the argument that God allows evil to achieve some greater good. My response would be to say that an omnipotent God could have actualized any logically possible state of affair without the need to create suffering, but I am not sure this response is strong enough.
Then phrase it as "So, God has decided that some good people have to die in order to achieve a greater good. Couldn't he have accomplished that good without sentencing good people to die? If your god needs evil in order to make good, then he is not omnipotent."
