CC075: DEBATE: The Problem of Evil - Cameron Bertuzzi vs Justin Schieber
Capturing Christianity Podcast
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The Three Facts About Flourishing and Languishing
If we abstract away from the three facts about the flourishing and languishing of sentient beings mentioned in my opening. In fact, the existence of an unsurpassably great god suggests that this is what we should observe. Cameron's second response to my case against god from evil is to employ a soul building theodocy. The basic idea for soul building is that human suffering of all kinds is necessary to achieve the greatest goods. Examples of these goods are things like self sacrifice, e compassion, generosity, ampathy and forgiveness. These are moral goals that cameron thinks god would desire to bring about, even if some suffering is a requirement to do so. Cameron posits soul building in an
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