THEISM AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: A CRITICAL STUDY

This study focuses on the traditional understanding of God, a God who is purported to have created the universe and all it holds on one hand, and our daily life experiences of the world on the other hand. Theists assert God to be the most powerful, wholly good. and all-knowing. Our daily experience shows that there is evil everywhere: pain and suffering are undeniably real, cancer, natural disasters, war, poverty, racism, murder, animal cruelty, and the list is almost endless. 

This study objectives to find out whether the available arguments for the existence of God and the existence of evil are logically tenable; to investigate whether the existence of God negates the existence of evil and vice versa; to provide some philosophical ground for the discussion of the problem of evil and the existence of an omnipotent being. This research consists of a title page, approval page, certification, abstract, Chapters One to Five (from introduction to conclusion), and bibliography.