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    It is not the case that If there is no afterlife, the problem of evil becomes impossible to solve in any rationally intelligible way.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Finite goods can constitute sufficient justification for finite suffering without requiring infinite compensatory goods in an afterlife.
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    • 2.John Stuart Mill and secular theodicists like D.Z. Phillips argue that requiring afterlife compensation conflates justice with cosmic bookkeeping.
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    • 3.A God who only permits suffering when offset by posthumous reward treats persons instrumentally, violating Kantian dignity norms more than godless tragedy would.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Skeptical theism, as developed by Wykstra and Bergmann, holds that humans lack the cognitive scope to determine whether God has sufficient reasons for uncompensated suffering.
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    • 2.If our epistemic limitations block confident inference that God lacks justifying reasons, they equally block confident inference that afterlife is the only intelligible solution.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.A perfectly good and all-powerful God would not make a cosmos in which all or most created persons have lives full of misery and then are annihilated.
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    • 2.An all-loving good God would not create a cosmos in which there is no opportunity for transformation beyond this life.
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