RE: Help me refute the "suffering will be insignificant in heaven" theodicy
November 15, 2024 at 10:33 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?
A heaven full of waking nightmares? Hard pass. Especially since now that you can see everybody else who's still alive enduring that or worse. Not my idea of a good time.
More interestingly, how do you deal with the problem that when you get to heaven you'll know that every last one of your friends and loved ones that isn't there with you is suffering eternal torment courtesy of the Big Boss whose Hozanas you're singing. Kinda takes the bloom off the whole paradise thing.
Quote: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.
An omniscient Deity doesn't have to choose between the lesser of two evils. A Deity can always choose another alternative, and can choose one with no evil if it so desires. A god that has limited choices is a limited god and that's just