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Skeptical theism is a view taken in response to the evidential problem of evil in the philosophy of religion. Skeptical theists accept that God exists and that we can know general truths about God but denies that in any particular case we can know the reasons for God acting in a particular way. It was coined in a 1996 paper by Paul Draper, "The Skeptical Theist." == Background == The argument that skeptical theism is primarily responding to is the evidentiary problem of evil, which argues against the existence of God on this basis: # If an omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipotent God exists, there should be no gratuitous evil. # There exists instances of gratuitous evil. # Therefore, an omniscient, omnibenveolent and omnipotent God does not exist. The skeptical theist argues that on the basis of our limited knowledge of the reasons for God's actions, we cannot know the second premise.〔(Skeptical Theism ), ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy''.〕 In other formulations of the skeptical theism hypothesis, it has been described as the denial of the proposition that "If, after thinking hard, we can’t think of any God-justifying reason for permitting some horrific evil then it is likely that there is no such reason." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「skeptical theism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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