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Which argument for or against the existence of God do you find most compelling? Why do you feel this way?
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The most compelling argument is John Hick’s because of how he allowed evil to exist so that God can be proven to exist. For him, the ultimate answer to the problem of evil is that moral evil is relative to the problem of free will, thus, the mystery continues to be what it is. Also, he described that in ethics, the existence of a nonmoral evil can be answered if it has positive benefits in the future. I think I feel compelled by this because at first, I want to refute it but as I read through the argument,