In This Essay Johnson Compares God's Behavior with That of a Morally

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In this essay Johnson compares God's behavior with that of a morally good person. If you know that a six-month-old baby is in a burning building and you have the opportunity to save it without undue risk to your life, you would no doubt save the baby. Of course, if you could not save the child, you would be excused. The question is, "Why doesn't God intervene to save not just babies who are caught in fires but people everywhere who are suffering and in great need of help?" Johnson considers various "excuses" the theist might claim for God and argues that they all fail. His conclusion is that if there is a God, he or she is probably either evil or both good and evil.
-According to Johnson, the reason it will not do for the theist to claim that evil exists as a necessary contrast to good so we can have knowledge of good is

• A) evil and good are the same thing.
• B) only a small amount of evil would be necessary to give us this knowledge.
• C) evil is good for us.
• D) large amounts of evil are necessary to give us this knowledge.

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