A theist is a person whose belief in God is based upon three premises. The three premises are: God is omnipotent, God is wholly good, and evil exists. However, many people are skeptical to this belief, claiming that an omnipotent and wholly good God would not allow evil to exist. One such person is John Mackie, who allows the contradiction between these premises to be seen much clearer by adding two additional premises which connect …showed first 75 words of 1350 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1350 total…the existence of a benevolent being as is being contented. Thus, the problem of evil remains a problem for the theist because to contend that God is omnipotent, God is wholly good, and evil exists is a contradiction. As Mackie states the only solution to this problem is to deny at least one of the propositions on which the theists base their belief, which is a problem to which the theists can not adequately respond.