The problem of evil revisited.
September 21, 2014 at 3:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2014 at 3:59 pm by Mystic.)
I think in an attempt to a find a solution with the problem of evil, it's necessary to invoke the possibility of a afterlife that is perfect and everlasting.
If it is everlasting and of high happiness, in about a trillion years from now for example, any suffering in this world would be made trivial to the experience of bliss of a trillion years. This even more so as it goes on to infinity.
Now the only thing that is required for benevolence of a wise creator is some purpose to the suffering in this world.
Well I think a world where we can build character that comes before a world were we enjoy eternal bliss, is better that no one world at all.
More so, whatever makes the system over all better to character building and moral choosing, is a worthy of a sacrifice of trivial suffering because of an infinite reward that is gained by it (the character building and goodness).
Death would have to have natural causes, and it seems also, that a system were God is not constantly intervening is better then a system that he is intervening. this is because in a world were he constantly intervened, it would be counter productive to character building. It can also be invoked that diversity of intelligent life in the universe is one of the goals of the universe. Evolution therefore perhaps is a natural best way in which God would spread intelligent life in the universe. He would also not constantly interfere in the world as that would go against a better world set for character building and free-will.
I think this solves the issue of the problem of evil. Let me know if there are any flaws.
If it is everlasting and of high happiness, in about a trillion years from now for example, any suffering in this world would be made trivial to the experience of bliss of a trillion years. This even more so as it goes on to infinity.
Now the only thing that is required for benevolence of a wise creator is some purpose to the suffering in this world.
Well I think a world where we can build character that comes before a world were we enjoy eternal bliss, is better that no one world at all.
More so, whatever makes the system over all better to character building and moral choosing, is a worthy of a sacrifice of trivial suffering because of an infinite reward that is gained by it (the character building and goodness).
Death would have to have natural causes, and it seems also, that a system were God is not constantly intervening is better then a system that he is intervening. this is because in a world were he constantly intervened, it would be counter productive to character building. It can also be invoked that diversity of intelligent life in the universe is one of the goals of the universe. Evolution therefore perhaps is a natural best way in which God would spread intelligent life in the universe. He would also not constantly interfere in the world as that would go against a better world set for character building and free-will.
I think this solves the issue of the problem of evil. Let me know if there are any flaws.
