13. Life after Death: The Problem of Evil and Theodices (I)
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- 13. Life after Death: The Problem of Evil and Theodices
- Augustine
- Views that sin entered the world because of human freewill
- God made world perfect paradise and humans are responsible for it 'going wrong'
- Genesis 3;17 says: "Cursed is the ground because of you"
- Moral Evil
- Is a result of humans choosing to disobey God
- To be less than God intended them to be
- We fall short of our God given natures
- Everyone is guilty of sin since we all were seminally present in 'the loins of Adam'
- We are literally descendants of Adam and Eve
- Is a result of humans choosing to disobey God
- Natural Evil
- Not evil in itself
- Volcanoes are only doing what volcanoes should do
- The corruption of nature to include suffering is a Just punishment for our sin
- Through our moral failure we bought about the corruption of nature itself
- Not evil in itself
- Life after death
- Justice is restored when God judges everyone and the damned will go to hell and the righteous will go to heaven
- The whole was 'harmonised'
- Augustine and Aquinas
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist - more loving to allow freewill and risk being evil
- God allows evil to happen in the world in order to bring a greater good there from
- If no afterlife; no reward/punishment
- Irenaeus
- Argues God did not intend this world to be perfect
- In the sense that there would be no suffering
- God intended world to be environment where humans had real freewill, to make choices
- Two stage creation:
- Stage 1: Image of God
- An immature creature able to grow and learn through exercising their freewill
- Stage 2: Likeness of God
- Where humans become child of God
- Stage 1: Image of God
- Irenaeus argues that perfect paradise would never allow real moral and spiritual growth
- Free growth can only come in world of dependable laws, real dangers, frustrations, pain, obstacles, etc.
- Argues God did not intend this world to be perfect
- Augustine
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