Good And Evil

• Influences people to behave in a good way
• Resides in heaven
• Root of everything good
• Judges us on what we do during our lives
• Loves each of us
• Gave Jesus to die for humanity's sins
• Satan defeated by Jesus's death but still able to tempt people away from God
• God gave us free will
  
• Good is more powerful than evil
  

• Root of evil
• Influences people to stray from God and behave ina bad way
• Lives in hell
• Is often said to posess people or places
• Stereotypical image= red horns, tail, fork
• Once once an archangel called Lucifer, got jealous of God and fell to hell. "Fallen angel"
• During the Bible Satan is often seen to try to persuade people to go against God's wishes
  

• Eve was tempted by the Devil in the form of a serpant to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
• Adam and Eve ate from tree= ORIGINAL SIN
• Original Sin brough evil into the world
  
• This sin is inherited by each of us and can only be erased through baptism
• God gave us free will, and therefore couldn't prevent Adam and Eve's decision to eat from the tree
  

• Upbringing- the way in which their family/parents behave shows them how they should behave, especially ina Christian environment
• Conscience- a sense of guilt when you have done something wrong, a sense of what is morally right/wrong
• The Bible- the parables, the ten commandments, Jesus' example to us...
  

Natural:

• Natural disasters eg hurricanes, floods
• Not engineered by humans

Moral:

• Result of someone's action
• eg bullying

Some examples of evil or suffering do not fit neatly into one category