The problem of evil
- Created by: On_to_good_things
- Created on: 31-05-17 12:29
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- Types of evil
- Problem of evil
- Inconsistent triad
- Iraneaus
- Making bad choices (moral evil) necessary for spiritual growth of imperfect beings
- Criticism: does all suffering develop humans?
- "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." - Genesis 1:26
- "How if we had no knowledge of the contrary, could we have instruction in that which is good?"
- Soul-making theodicy
- Making bad choices (moral evil) necessary for spiritual growth of imperfect beings
- Augustine
- Salvation is possible owing to the sacrifice of Christ
- Evil = result of misuse of free will
- Evil = privation of good
- Sin = falling short of the mark
- "God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good." Genesis 1:31
- Natural and moral evil "seminally present" in Adam
- John Hick
- Epistemic distance - enables freedom
- Heaven is the justification of all the suffering, and we go there when we are developed enough
- Universalism
- Does this make sense? What is the motivation to live a good life?
- Universalism
- This world is a "vale of soul making"
- Moral evil (result of free will)
- Natural evil (result of sin)
- Problem of evil
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