Problem Of evil
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- Problem of Evil
- Augustine
- 354-430
- Trained in Milan as a Rhetorist
- Came under the influence of Neo-Platonists.
- Based on the Genesis account of creation
- God made a perfect world, Evil did not exist.
- God saw all that he had made, and it was very good"(Genesis 1:31)
- He believed evil came about as a result of the misuse of free will
- "God let's evil be permitted for the punishment of the wicked and the trail of the good"
- Evil is the privation of good, just as darkness is the absence of light.
- Evil did not come from God(whom is all good)
- At the end of time, we will be judged. Good will be rewarded and Evil will be punished.
- The good will experience eternal happiness, the evil will receive their just punishments.
- Fall of the angels, Lucifer chose to rebel against God.
- Evil came from the entities that turnt their back on God. They settle fr lesser gooods instead of the Supreme good.
- Irenaeus
- Early 2nd Century
- Bishop during early stages of the development of Christian threodicy
- His best known book was called 'Adversus Haereses'
- Based most of his work against Gnnosticism
- God brings in suffering for the benefit of humanity, from it we learn postitive values.
- Heaven and hell are important because it enables humans to achieve perfection
- Humans were created in the image and likeness of God.
- John Hick
- Epistemic Distance- Distance of knowledge e.g. we have to learn to get closer to God.
- God cannot be controlling us, we must distance our self from God to be free.
- Hick argues that if humans were created perfect and with full awareness of god we could not exercise our free will.
- Soul-Making theodicy
- "An imperfect world is limitlessly more valuable than a goodness ready made"
- Key characteristics of God
- Natural and Moral evil(justifications)
- The story of the Fall
- Inconsistent Triad
- Examples of evil in the news.
- Augustine
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