R.S. evil+suffering
- Created by: snoodles14
- Created on: 26-04-19 07:55
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- Evil and suffering
- Inconsistent Triad
- God cannot be Omnibenevolent, Omniscient and Omnipotent and yet evil exist.
- Strengths -God would not have innocents suffer intentionally -If we have no free will then God is behind suffering -There is no God -- lack of EVIDENCE
- Weaknesses Suffering can also bring good things Suffering as a punishment like karma If we have free will then we are partially responsible -- Plantinga
- J.L.Mackie is the Philosopher behind the inconsistent triad.
- God cannot be Omnibenevolent, Omniscient and Omnipotent and yet evil exist.
- Holocaust Theology
- This explores the role of G_d during the Holocaust - Did he abandon the Jews? - Why didn't he stop it.
- G_d not to blame The nazi's did not win - larger battle, couldn't be stopped without restricting free will, trial of faith.
- Free Will and Predetermination
- Free will is the ability to make our own choices, the opposite is predetermination
- Some decisions are down to PRIMING - associations with an object/situation
- Free Will and Predetermination
- G_d is to blame If predetermined the G_d is to blame, Omnipotent G_d could stop it, 6 million died no excuses can justify.
- Free Will and Predetermination
- Free will is the ability to make our own choices, the opposite is predetermination
- Some decisions are down to PRIMING - associations with an object/situation
- Free Will and Predetermination
- Theodicies
- Augustine Before the fall there is harmony but after it human nature is permanently changed to encourage wrong. The world was created perfectly but evil is a privation. Jesus and his death was God's solution.
- Weaknesses Relies on the existence of heaven, if jesus is the solution why is there still suffering, if God is omniscient he would still know about suffering.
- Strengths Backed up by the Bible, no blame on God - Brian Davis, we can still have good relationship with God.
- Irenaen The world was deliberately created imperfectly as suffering helps us develop as people and close the epistemic distance.
- Strengths Suffering does have a purpose, no blame, gives meaning - blackcurrant sweet analogy.
- Weaknesses contradicts bible, if God is perfect why create imperfectly, not all suffering is moral growth.
- Augustine Before the fall there is harmony but after it human nature is permanently changed to encourage wrong. The world was created perfectly but evil is a privation. Jesus and his death was God's solution.
- The fall
- The Sepent in the garden of Eden tricks Eve and Adam into eating the fruits of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
- They are punished by mortality, having to grow their own food and the pain of childbirth.
- Humanity is privileged but abuses its gifts so suffering is used as a punishment and a reminder of the sins of those before us.
- Adam and Eve have free will so it is partially their fault.
- The Sepent in the garden of Eden tricks Eve and Adam into eating the fruits of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
- Nature of Evil
- Personal being like Satan or Iblis, an adversary to God who tempts us to wrong.
- Impersonal force like a magnet. Beyond our control, we are drawn to it. Random nature of evil - no patterns
- Society and upbringing - programmed to do certain things as they are 'normal'. Based on parenting, peer pressure and social media.
- Deliberate and intentional
- Bible passages
- Deuteronomy 8:5 - God as a trainer
- Deuteronomy 28:15 - Suffering from disobeying God
- Genesis 22:12 - "It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test"
- Inconsistent Triad
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