Does Griffin account for evil?

• Griffin's response to natural and moral evil - accounts for evil

  - Logically explains benevolence of God

  - God could not do anything else but create because of his benevolence

  - Panentheism: God suffers with us demonstrates God's benevolence

  - Moral and natural evil is explained through the opposites of discord and harmony

  - Moral evil is a real possibility because of free will
• Griffin's response to natural and moral evil - does not account for evil

  - God is not omnipotent and cannot affect or change the universe only persuade
• Griffin's response to the logical problem of evil - accounts for evil

  - Logical problem of evil is flawed as it starts with the idea that God is omnipotent then concludes that since evil is present God must not exist. However Griffin argues that God is not omnipotent
• Griffin's response to the logical problem of evil - does not account for evil

  - God is not omnipotent (ex-materia)

  - Not a traditional Church teaching
• Griffin's response to the evidential problem of evil - accounts for evil


  - God suffers alongside

  - Natural evil exists because ex materia was flawed

  - Where there is harmony and intensity there also has to be discord and triviality
• Griffin's response to the evidential problem of evil - does not account for evil


  - There is no afterlife

  - No understanding of justice. If God is benevolent then surely he is also just?