What kind of evil does the holocaust come under?
Moral
What kind of evil does earthquake come under?
Natural
What is the biggest obstacle to a believer’s faith?
The fact of evil and suff
What three attributes does the God of classical theism have?
5
Choose one and explain how it is undermined by the existence of evil and suffering.
Finish the hypothesis: either God is not omnipotent OR He is not Omni benevolent OR …
Evil does not exist
Who said the above?
Who said ‘there is evil in the world; therefore God does not exist’ but rejected this conclusion?
Aquinas
What word means a justification of the existence of evil by God?
Theodicy
Whose was the belief that God’s creation was perfect?
Augustine
On what did he base this idea?
Genesis 1:26
What did he call the doctrine of the sins of Adam and Eve being passed down to all mankind forever?
Original Sin
How does he justify the continued existence of evil and suffering? i.e. what / how are we compensated or rewarded?
Through faith in Christ
Whose solution to the problem explained that God didn’t make the world perfect anyway?
Irenaeus
Why?
To allow souls to develop
His phrase was this world is a ‘Vale of …….’
Suffering
How does he justify the continued existence of evil and suffering? i.e. what reward does he offer to all as compensation?
Heaven
What example story does Peter Vardy tell to explain why God allows us free choice to worship him?
The peasant girl and the king
With which solution does the theory of evolution conflict?
Augustine’s
What do both solutions have in common that they blame for the existence of suffering?
Free-will
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