S ince 1991, I have needed a new pacemaker every five years on average. Last week I needed a replacement, my fifth. Because the wire that for 20 years connected the pacemaker to the inside of the heart started to show signs of wear and tear, it had to be replaced as well. The operation, especially the wire replacement, was delicate and critical. Luckily, it was successful without complications....

In his recent version of the logical problem evil, James Sterba articulates several moral principles that, on assumption that God is morally perfect, seem to entail God’s non-existence. Such principles, however, only apply he a agent. I first argue against this by appealing work Mark Murphy before, secondly, suggesting an alternative way frame Sterba’s argument in terms divine love. One can dis...

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In Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba uses the analogy of just political state to develop evil-prevention principles he thinks good would follow. With assumption that is omnipotent, these entail never permit free agents bring about horrendous evil. But routinely succeed in doing so: entailing logical incompatibility between world’s evils and existence good, omnipotent God. I challe...

Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) draws attention to the importance of ethical assumptions in ‘logical’ arguments from evil (LAfEs) effect that existence (certain types) is incompatible with who all-powerful and morally perfect. I argue, first, such are likely succeed only when ‘normatively relativized’—that is, based on about divine goodness may be subject deep disagreement. th...