Good and Evil: The Existence of God Essay by Top Papers

If God exists, as is indicated in Christian Biblical record, then God is omnipotent (Perry, 1999, p. 1). Being omnipotent God has the power to control any and every thing that exists in the world. The existence of God, therefore, should mean that the world was perfect and that there was no evil. Yet, if God does exist and He did decide that He would give man free will, or the will to choose his own moral path, one of those choices would not be evil because God, if omnipotent, would not have allowed evil to exist at all. Even still, if God did allow evil to exist in the world, God, being the vision of the power in the Bible, would prevent evil from affecting the innocent and harming those that did not embrace evil as part of their moral fiber. Yet, because evil does exist and because evil continues to impact all individuals, regardless of their moral strength, God cannot exist because there is no support for the notion that He has the power to control evil on the earth. If he does not have this power, as the Bible states, then the Biblical record is incorrect and, if so, then there is no God.