{"id":288,"date":"2013-06-11T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T10:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/?p=288"},"modified":"2013-06-11T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T10:48:11","slug":"what-is-the-problem-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2013\/06\/11\/what-is-the-problem-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Problem of Evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very short video &#8211; just a basic definition of the Problem of Evil..<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Problem of Evil\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uspXVE9nnEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe logical format into which the problem is put is that of three statements which the theist wishes to take on board, but which seem to entail a contradiction, these being :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0(i) God is wholly Good (omnibenevolent)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">(ii) God is Omnipotent (all-powerful)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">(iii) Evil Exists<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In case you\u2019re interested \u2013 there is more info about our Religion, Philosophy &amp; Ethics course at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/db.tt\/jSEK5Qn4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/db.tt\/jSEK5Qn4<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 enjoy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Staff from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/rpe\/Pages\/entry2013.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Religion, Philosophy &amp; Ethics course\u00a0<\/a>at University of Gloucestershire talking about Philosophy of Religion..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/RPEglos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FEEL FREE TO VISIT\/JOIN OUR COURSE FACEBOOK GROUP..<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Current and past students talking about\u00a0Philosophy,Religion, Ethics, Religious\u00a0Education and more.. (and the odd cat picture..)<\/p>\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very short video &#8211; just a basic definition of the Problem of Evil.. The logical format into which the problem is put is that of three statements which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,375,384,379],"tags":[408,409,410,411],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-philosophy-of-religion","category-revision","category-videos","tag-philosophy-of-religion-2","tag-philosophy-religion","tag-religion","tag-university-of-gloucestershire"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}