13 Life after Death: Problem of Evil and Theodices (II)
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- Created on: 18-06-17 20:06
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- 13 Life after Death: Problem of Evil and Theodices (II)
- Humans are created to come into fellowship with their Maker
- The world exists to be an environment for man's life, and its implications are integral to its fitness as a place of soul making - John Hick
- His theory is eschatological
- It explains existence of Evil by Good God will bring out of temporal process
- Life after Death
- Hick argues God will sustain our conscious existence until we come into loving relationship with Him
- Which is what we were 'designed' for
- Hick argues God will sustain our conscious existence until we come into loving relationship with Him
- Dostoevsky's Ivan
- In discussion in D's book 'The Brother's Karamazov' between Ivan and Aloysha, Ivan puts forward one of most powerful arguments against idea freewill is justification for suffering
- Vardy on Ivan
- Peter Vardy calls Ivan a 'protest atheist'
- He accepts God's existence but rejects God's authority
- Vardy summarises:
- 'God is to blame for evil and the degree of innocent suffering in world means that whatever plan God has in mind for humanity it is not worth it"
- Ivan argues whatever reason God had in allowing suffering even for sake of freewill was not worth it
- He hands back his 'ticket' of freewill
- Peter Vardy calls Ivan a 'protest atheist'
- Vardy says that perhaps the other possible response is perhaps taken by Job:
- Job challenges God about his innocent suffering, rejecting his friends claims that he must deserve it
- Finally "out of the darkness" God speaks: "Who are you to question me with your ignorant words"
- Job accepts that he cannot challenge God
- He must trust God
- He cannot hope to understand better than God
- Humans are created to come into fellowship with their Maker
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