(August 31, 2013 at 1:08 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: The argument from evil is one of the most overused arguments. I think it's not a particularly convincing argument because it really only applies to modern Christianity. I don't even think that early Christians considered their god to be all good. As frequently as this argument is made it is always directed towards the Christian God. It made me wonder and I genuinely don't know, but does mainstream Muslim thought consider Allah to be Omnibenevolent. I know there are several passages in the Qu'ran which call him all powerful and all just but is he ever considered to be all good? Is the argument from evil applicable to Islam?
Yes. Extracted from the Quran are the attributes of Allah, the so called 99 names..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam
The Exceedingly Compassionate, The Exceedingly Beneficent, The Exceedingly Gracious
The Exceedingly Merciful
The Propitious, The Benefactor, The Source of Good
And so on.
Cheerful Charlie
If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
- Attributed to Mark Twain
If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
- Attributed to Mark Twain
