Evil & Suffering
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- Created on: 06-06-16 18:46
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- Evil & Suffering
- Types of evil
- Natural evil
- Moral evil
- Mixture e.g Climate change
- Types of evil
- Impersonal force- 'Dark side'
- Personal being- Devil/Satan
- Psychological phenomenon- a 'sickness' of mind cause by abuse or by being miss treated
- Key source texts
- Adam & eve-the fall.
- Job- Satan was attacking Job but he always stayed faithful to God
- Jesus' teaching- be nice to people, not evil- Moral choice
- Original Sin
- Christians believe due to the sin of Adan & Eve all humans are born with an inbuilt bias toward evil.
- The problem of evil
- Atheists say that these three facts can't be true at the same time.
- Inconsistent Triad
- St Augustine
- God allows evil so we can have free will. without choice we would all be robots.
- A world with freedom and love as well as suffering is better than a world without suffering but also without freedom and love.
- St Iranians
- God allows evil so that we can learn how to be better people.
- Without suffering we would have no opportunity to develop qualities like compassion & courage.
- Christian response
- Christians believe we have a duty to help those who suffer as if it was Christ who was suffering.
- E.g Christian aid; "we believe in life before death"
- Muslim response
- Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam
- Every Muslim is to give up 2.5% of their income to the poor each year.
- This money must be spent of those who are poor or suffering.
- E.g Muslim Aid.
- Types of evil
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