The Causes of Evil in Christianity
- Created by: Eliza Hamilton
- Created on: 04-08-17 17:17
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- The Causes of Evil- Christianity
- Natural Evil
- Natural occurrence that cannot be prevented e.g. a flood
- Moral Evil
- Committed by humans
- The Devil
- Some Christians believe we can't blame evil on God because it is caused by the devil
- If there is good there must also be evil
- One of God's angels who was thrown out of heaven for wanting too much power- literal belief
- Tempts Job to go against God in the Book of Job
- Represented by a serpent who tempts Eve to sin in Genesis
- Tried to tempt Jesus after he was in the wilderness for 40 days
- The devil is not literal but a symbol of evil- metaphorical belief
- Original Sin
- 'Sin entered the world through one man (Adam/Eve), and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men'
- All sin is the fault of humans because sin entered the world when Adam and Eve ate from the tree
- The Inconsistent Triad
- Evil wouldn't exist if God is both omnibenevolent and omnipothent
- Evil does exist so God must either not be omnipotent or omnibenevolent
- A problem as Christians do believe that God is both omnipotent and omnibenevolent
- Natural Evil
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