Problem of Evil
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- Problem of evil
- the problem of evil is the problem of suffering.
- J.L Mackie
- Inconsistent Triad is a theory in which neither God's Omnipotence, God's Omni- benevolence and evil can exist in tandem.
- "The conjunction of any two leads to the negation of the third".
- Inconsistent Triad is a theory in which neither God's Omnipotence, God's Omni- benevolence and evil can exist in tandem.
- J.L Mackie
- Natural and moral evil
- Natural evil is going wrong of the natural world (i.e. Tsunami's, earthquakes etc)
- Moral evil is evil brought on by human action (i.e. War)
- Augustinian Theodicy
- Augustine took a very literal view of the bible. Hence he believed that God created Earth.
- Augustine also believed that the world was created perfectly.
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- "How can a perfectly created world go wrong?"
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Augustine also believed that the world was created perfectly.
- In Augustine's mind evil only occurs when beings with freewill disobey God. (beings with free will in this case are angels and humans).
- Humans stopped doing what we were created for, this therefore lead to 'The Fall", this brought with it the two types of evil.
- In the bible this is depicted in the story of Adam and Eve.
- Augustine believed that Adam's sin was passed onto all humans because we were 'Seminally present'.
- Adam's sin is known as the original sin
- Augustine believed that Adam's sin was passed onto all humans because we were 'Seminally present'.
- In the bible this is depicted in the story of Adam and Eve.
- Humans stopped doing what we were created for, this therefore lead to 'The Fall", this brought with it the two types of evil.
- Evil is not something God created. Evil is the going wrong wrong of something which is inherently good.
- Hence Augustine labelled evil as the privation of good.
- If God was truly just we would all go to ho hell for our sins.
- However due to God's Omni-Benevolence he sent Jesus down to die as a sacrifice.
- Anyone who believed in God after this point could be saved.
- However due to God's Omni-Benevolence he sent Jesus down to die as a sacrifice.
- Augustine took a very literal view of the bible. Hence he believed that God created Earth.
- Irenean Theodicy
- Humanity are the children of God
- We are created in the image of God so that over our life time we can attain the likeness of God.
- To attain the true likeness of God a level of cooperation is required henceforth we were given freewill.
- God created a world that was "The best for growth and development of people".
- According to John Hick we could not have been created perfectly because we would automatically love God. This would remove our freewill; Hick called this the Goodness of Robots.
- We are created in the image of God so that over our life time we can attain the likeness of God.
- God has stood back and let humanity exercise their freewill for Good or Evil because if God that freedom would've been lost.
- Humans were created from an epistemic distance from God. This is so that we have choice when it comes to believing and obeying God.
- Humanity are the children of God
- the problem of evil is the problem of suffering.
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