Hi, folks, just finished translating my logical argument from evil to the impossibility of the skeptical theist response. The argument also shows the impossibility of any other odyssey or defense like Plantinga's free will defense, because the problem that i'm posing it's transcendental to all of this issues, and by that i mean that these responses pressuppose some conditions that my argument attends to show that are in fact impossible. The argument goes as it follows:
Logical Argument from Evil and for the implausibility of the skeptical theist responses
P1 If God Exists he is the only necessary being (you could say a MGB) – Omnipotent (it’s capable of actualizing anything that does not imply a logical contradiction or it’s logically inconceivable), omniscient (knows the whole set of all possible ways and degrees of knowledge of everything there is to be known) and omnibenevolent/morally perfect – and everything else that exists or comes into existence is created, directly or indirectly, contingently to divine will (that must comport, at the same time and for all of his decisions, all of the implications of the former attributes listed above).
P2. There is a vast order of other things.
C1. If God exists, then there is a vast created order which is contingent upon his will. (from P1 and P2)
P3. If the created order – in the totallity of its forms, substances and consequent causal relations/interactions of elements and events – is contingent upon divine will (which must comport divine attributes and it’s implications), then it could have been created in any other way that would not imply a logical contradiction/be logically inconceivable, resulting in other possible causal relations/interactions between elements/substances/events.
C2. Causal relations/interactions between elements/substances/events in the created order – which are contingent upon God’s will (which must comport his atributes and it’s implications) – could’ve been created in any other way that would not imply a logical contradiction/be logically inconceivable, resulting in other possible causal relations/interactions between elements/substances/events. (from C1 and P3)
Given C2, lets see how the logical problem of suffering goes without fear of the skeptical theist response.
P5. Good is oppose to evil in such a way that na omnipotent and omniscient God, in order to be perfectly good/omnibenevolent/morally perfect, will necessarily eliminate/avoid every single evil/suffering such that, to every good it alledgelly implies it, the non-implication to the good is not logically contradictory/inconceivable or there is a higher good that does not implie it.
P6. Evil/intense suffering which it’s non-implication to a given good it’s not logically contradictory/inconceivable or that has a greater good which does not implie it, is, gratuitous evil. (definition of gratuitous evil)
C3. If God exists, then it follows necessarily that gratuitous evils cannot exist. (from P5 and P6)
P7 If God exists, events like the hollocaust or new-born child anomalies/genetic deseases are events in the created order.
C4. If God exists, events like the hollocaust or new-born child anomalies/genetic deseases, aswell as it’s causal relations/interaction with other elements/substances/events that constitute them, could’ve been other that wouldn’t be logically contradictory/inconceivable, and therefore cannot justify a necessary implication of any good in the created order which it’s actualization without the suffering and evil wouldn’t be logically contradictory/inconceivable or that has a greater good which does not imply the evil/suffering (like the holocaust or new-born deseases). (From P7 e C2)
C5. Gratuitous evils exist. (from P7 and C4)
C6. God does not exist (From C3 and C5)