Evil and Suffering Solutions (Part 2)
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- Evil and Suffering Solutions
- The Irenaean Theodicy
- The Fall was inevitable as humans are moving from a state of imperfection to perfection.
- 2 stages to human life: 1) We are made "in the image of God" and 2) Humans grow into a likeness of God.
- Evil and suffering are fundamental to allow a person to strengthen and mature.
- Suffering is made up for in the afterlife, after Purgatory.
- Sin occurs due to the infantile nature of those who have not yet matured.
- E.g. Adam and Eve sinned for Universal Salvation.
- John Hick updated the Irenaean Theodicy: God allows humans to develop for themselves.
- If God had made humanity in perfection, we would have a robotic nature that would be valueless.
- Evil can have long term effects of charity, compassion and love.
- Richard Swinburne supports, arguing that God has given humans the opportunity to develop power, freedom and knowledge.
- Criticisms
- Trivialises evil, presenting it as a challenge.
- Why should some people suffer more than others?
- Sometimes there is no greater good and sometimes suffering is too extreme e.g. The Holocaust.
- Is it right for all humans to achieve salvation?
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- Augustine's Theodicy
- God permits evil because the only way to eradicate evil is to eradicate free will.
- Fall of the angels.
- There was no epistemic distance before The Fall. Now humans can close the epistemic gap by turning to God in times of need.
- Prior to The Fall there was no evil: "the lion lay down with the lamb."
- Humans chose to disobey God, we are now all seminally present in Adam.
- Adam & Eve were told not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. They disobeyed and were guilty of original sin, which caused The Fall, a privatio boni.
- God didn't create evil, he created the world with the potential to fall short.
- Criticisms
- Evolution suggests that the world is changing due to science.
- It is not biologically accurate that we are all seminally present in Adam.
- Hell contradicts an omnibenevolent God.
- If God is omniscient, why didn't He foresee The Fall?
- Flew and Mackie ask why God didn't use His omnipotence to create humans that want to choose good over evil.
- If humans can have immutable goodness on Heaven, then why not on Earth?
- The Irenaean Theodicy
- Augustine's Theodicy
- God permits evil because the only way to eradicate evil is to eradicate free will.
- Fall of the angels.
- There was no epistemic distance before The Fall. Now humans can close the epistemic gap by turning to God in times of need.
- Prior to The Fall there was no evil: "the lion lay down with the lamb."
- Humans chose to disobey God, we are now all seminally present in Adam.
- Adam & Eve were told not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. They disobeyed and were guilty of original sin, which caused The Fall, a privatio boni.
- God didn't create evil, he created the world with the potential to fall short.
- Criticisms
- Evolution suggests that the world is changing due to science.
- It is not biologically accurate that we are all seminally present in Adam.
- Hell contradicts an omnibenevolent God.
- If God is omniscient, why didn't He foresee The Fall?
- Flew and Mackie ask why God didn't use His omnipotence to create humans that want to choose good over evil.
- If humans can have immutable goodness on Heaven, then why not on Earth?
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