Hick's theodicy evaluation
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- Created on: 07-10-15 13:45
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- Evaluating Hick's Theodicy
- Weaknesses
- Everyone makes it to hell= not consistent with the Christian view
- Eternal punishment means justice for evil
- If we all are saved why sin?
- How can we find goodness/ justification in horrific events e.g. Holocaust?
- Hume- why not learn from pleasure as well as pain?
- Does the end justify the means?
- Moral behaviour= pointless/ No incentive to develop (point of theodicy)
- Quanity of suffering = unfair and pointless. If suffering is necessary why can it not be restricted. 1 million Jews instead of of 6?
- Everyone makes it to hell= not consistent with the Christian view
- Strengths
- life does not always end in human development
- Achievable goal for humanity. Stresses relevance and value of life on earth. We need to be in God's likeness.
- Allows us to recognise importance of relationship with God
- Agreed by P.Vardy that free will is a necessity
- Supreme being (=God) can justify present suffering
- Even evil people are victims and deserve Gods mercy.
- The counter factual hypothesis
- Weaknesses
- Strengths
- life does not always end in human development
- Achievable goal for humanity. Stresses relevance and value of life on earth. We need to be in God's likeness.
- Allows us to recognise importance of relationship with God
- Agreed by P.Vardy that free will is a necessity
- Supreme being (=God) can justify present suffering
- Even evil people are victims and deserve Gods mercy.
- The counter factual hypothesis
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