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The [[purpose]] of the essay was to show that the evil in the world does not conflict with the [[goodness]] of [[God]], and that notwithstanding its many evils, the world is the best of all possible worlds. Leibniz wrote his Théodicée as a criticism of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, which had been written not long before; in this, Bayle, a well-known [[Skepticism|sceptic]], had argued that the [[pain|suffering]]s [[experience]]d in this earthly life [[proof|prove]] that God could not be good and omnipotent.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy]
The [[purpose]] of the essay was to show that the evil in the world does not conflict with the [[goodness]] of [[God]], and that notwithstanding its many evils, the world is the best of all possible worlds. Leibniz wrote his Théodicée as a criticism of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, which had been written not long before; in this, Bayle, a well-known [[Skepticism|sceptic]], had argued that the [[pain|suffering]]s [[experience]]d in this earthly life [[proof|prove]] that God could not be good and omnipotent.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy]
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Throughout the [[universe]], every unit is regarded as a part of the whole. Survival of the part is dependent on co-operation with the plan and [[purpose]] of the whole, the wholehearted desire and perfect willingness to do the Father's [[divine]] will. The only evolutionary world without error (the possibility of unwise [[judgment]]) would be a world without free [[intelligence]]... evolving man must be fallible if he is to be free. Free and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly [[wise]]. The possibility of mistaken [[judgment]] (evil) becomes [[sin]] only when the [[human]] will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral [[judgment]].[http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper3.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper3.html&line=130#mfs]
Throughout the [[universe]], every unit is regarded as a part of the whole. Survival of the part is dependent on co-operation with the plan and [[purpose]] of the whole, the wholehearted desire and perfect willingness to do [[the Father]]'s [[divine]] will. The only evolutionary world without error (the possibility of unwise [[judgment]]) would be a world without free [[intelligence]]... evolving man must be fallible if he is to be free. Free and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly [[wise]]. The possibility of mistaken [[judgment]] (evil) becomes [[sin]] only when the [[human]] will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral [[judgment]].[http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper3.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper3.html&line=130#mfs]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]