![]() By developing this account, he is able to turn towards various types of evils.įirst, there are moral evils. These goods are not just goods for people, but they are states which God would be expected to desire to bring about. The freedom of persons also allows for great evils. With freedom, humans can bring about all types of great goods. Human freedom is necessary for many goods. Given the existence of God, he also argues that worship is a great good. His account includes beauty, actions, thoughts and feelings as various goods. Swinburne first develops an account of goods within creation. ![]() ![]() Richard Swinburne offers a defense against this problem in his work Providence and the Problem of Evil. The problem of evil is considered by many to be the greatest challenge to theism. “In order rationally to believe that there is a God, despite, we need either strong positive evidence for the existence of God, or a record of discovering with respect to many apparent bad states that a theodicy works with respect to them, or a theodicy for each kind of bad state which seems to count against the existence of God.” ![]()
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