The Problem of Evil
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- Created on: 15-05-17 13:22
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- The Problem Of Evil
- Mackie's Inconsistent Triad
- The existence of Evil
- God is Omni- benevolent
- God is Omnipotent
- The existence of Evil
- God is Omni- benevolent
- God is Omnipotent
- God is Omnipotent
- God is Omni- benevolent
- The existence of Evil
- God is Omnipotent
- God is Omni- benevolent
- Compatibilist = determined to exist but has the free will to choose
- The existence of Evil
- Types of Evil
- Natural Evil = Natural disasters etc
- Moral Evil = murder, robbery etc
- Institutional evil = Genocide etc
- Hume
- God is either not omnipotent or not omni - benevolent
- Evil does exist
- Augustine's Theodicy
- First Argument
- Premise One = God created all things good
- Premise Two = evil is not good
- Conclusion = God did not create evil
- Second Argument
- Promise One = God created all things good
- Promise Two = Evil is not good
- Conclusion = Evil is not a thing, but the absence of good
- Natural evil came about by unbalance due to human sin
- Moral evil came from the knowledge of good and evil
- Wrong of god to abolish evil
- First Argument
- Irenaeus
- God did not make the world perfect
- The world was made in chaos so that we could evolve to perfection
- Goodness and perfection developed through willing cooperation with god
- Suffering creates positive traits like kindness and generosity
- John Hick
- God gave us free will to choose
- The goodness of robots would be useless
- Made at an epistemic distance
- God did not make the world perfect
- Process Theology
- God isn't separate to the cycle
- God suffers just as we suffer
- God's role in creation was initiation the evolutionary process
- Can only be held responsible to an extent
- The universe is an uncreated process and god is part of it
- God is Dipolar = has a physical and mental pole
- God isn't separate to the cycle
- Mackie's Inconsistent Triad
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