Summary Of The Atheist Argument For The Existence Of God

The atheist argument for the existence of God is that such a powerful being could not possibly exist with the presence of evil. The argument is that the all-powerful God would not allow evil to exist in the world and would therefore exterminate all evil. While evil still exists within the world this is proof to the atheist that God does not exist. The atheist argument claiming God cannot exist with the presence of evil uses the Judeo-Christian description of God against itself. For in the Judeo-Christian tradition God is said to be an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent being. The atheist uses this to argue that an all-powerful, all good God would not allow evil to exist in the world and could stop evil from existing all together. That such a powerful being could have created the perfect world where there is no evil within it. Yet that world was not created, and

One such argument comes from J. L. Mackie whose argument comes in three parts. The first part of his argument is that the creation of a perfect world where evil does not exist is possible if God is almighty. The second part argues that the for mentioned perfect world is a better world than that of which human beings currently inhabit. While the third part argues that if an all-powerful God existed, he would have created this perfect world. Mackie also angles that human beings could currently live their lives while only performing good actions. However, this argument is not a good objection against the free-will argument. Theist argue that though it is possible for a human being to do only good through their lifetime this is highly unlikely without divine intervention which in turn would no longer be free-will. It does slightly undermine the free-will defense with the small possibility that it is possible for human beings to only be good throughout their entire