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Consider this case study, and pay attention to the relevant…

Consider this case study, and pay attention to the relevant readings you will be required to use in order to answer the upcoming questions.  When you are finished reading the case study, you may move on to the next question.   In 2002, Columbian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by the guerilla group, FARC, and was forced to march and wander around in the jungle. While in captivity, she was chained by the neck to trees, locked inside of a box, starved, beaten, and raped.  She also nearly died more than once due to illness and disease. During this time, her beloved father passed away, and her two children were forced to grow up without her.  Betancourt was finally rescued in 2008 alongside 14 other captives. While she attributes her survival to God, others may not be so sure.       Is Betancourt’s perspective on God correct, here?  Or, is there something about God and God’s goodness that she is mistaken about?   The relevant readings you should use to answer these questions are:  JL Mackie, “Evil and Omnipotence” Marilyn McCord Adams, “Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God”   Here are the questions you should answer.  Please answer them one-by-one in the next set of text boxes What is your initial conviction about Betancourt’s perspective on this matter? What reasons or principles would you ground this opinion upon? Compare your reasons/principles with the reasons Mackie gives against the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect God in the light of evil. In your response, be sure to define the logical problem of evil. Expand on Mackie’s argument by explaining at least two of the “fallacious” solutions he gives against the theistic responses. Be sure to give details to these fallacious solutions, and explain how they might be used as responses to Betancourt. Add to your response by contrasting Mackie’s arguments with Marilyn McCord Adams’ response. Explain how Adams different approach to the problem of horrendous evils.  In your response, be sure to refer to the “engulfing” argument and her parent analogy. Finally, evaluate these arguments. Do these arguments reinforce your own reasons and principles concerning the perspective Ingrid Betancourt should have?