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    The evils that the world contains can be seen to be justi... — Carmelics
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    The evils that the world contains can be seen to be justified.

    Problem of Evil
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    • The world is designed by God to be an environment in which people, through their free choices, can undergo spiritual growth that will ultimately fit them for communion with God.
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    • 1.Natural evils such as childhood cancer, tsunamis, and congenital diseases occur independently of human free will and cannot be attributed to free choice.
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    • 2.Hick's soul-making theodicy cannot account for suffering imposed on non-consenting victims, particularly infants, who gain no developmental benefit from their agony.
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    • 3.A just God would not use innocent third parties as mere instruments for the spiritual growth of others, violating the Kantian principle of persons as ends in themselves.
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    • 1.The quantity and intensity of suffering vastly exceeds what would be necessary for soul-making, as Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov illustrates with children's suffering.
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    • 2.A morally perfect God would achieve spiritual growth through the least harmful means available, making gratuitous excess suffering unjustifiable by soul-making alone.
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    SEP: evil

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