Philosophy- Good and Evil

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what is a classic example of a moral evil?
holocaust.
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what is a moral evil?
evil that is caused by humans missusing their free will.
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what is good?
posative actions that benifit others and or make people happy.
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what is evil?
negative acctions that can be harmful to others and may cause pain and/or suffering.
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what is a natural evil?
suffering that has not been caused by hamans.
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what is a classic example of a natural evil?
Lisbon earthquake
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what was the lisbon earthquake?
happened on all saints day 1755. everyone was in church praying almost everyone killed by the earthquake.
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what is the God of classical theism?
god that has all the trates most people think of e.g. omnibenevolent.
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what quote is seen to be the "rock of atheism"?
"either God cannot abliosh evil, or he will not; if he cannot then he is not all powerful; if he will not then he is not all good."
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what was lusifer at the start of his story?
son of the dawn he was given powers over all angles.
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why were angles given free will?
so they could have the power of real love.
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why was lucifer jealous of God?
because he wanted to be like God he felt God was greater than him.
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what did lucifer do?
faught the angles
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what is a quote for lucifer fighting the angles?
"then another sign appeared in heaven an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns"
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what is a quote that says lucifer lost? (there are two)
"i saw satan fall like lightning from heaven." and " the great dragon was hurled down."
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what is the story of job? the old testament.
the devil tried to tempt a good man called job away from God by sending his all kinds of suffering in the hope that job would turn against god, but he didnt.
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what was the original sin?
the fall, Adem and Eve picking the apple.
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how do Christians deal with original sin?
they Baptiste their baby.
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what is "limbo"?
the place where babies go if they die and haven't been baptised.
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what quote says that babies must be baptised?
"now sanctify that by the power of your holy spirit, they may be clensed from sin and born again."
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why do people suffer? using the example of job suffering.
suffering is a test. suffering is a punishment for sin. suffering is part of Gods plan, which is beyond human understanding.
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what does redemption mean?
The act of delivering from sin or saving from evil.
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what is c.s lewis' quote about suffering?
"try to exclude the possibility of suffering... and you find you have excluded life itself."
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Jesus died on the cross for our sin, what quote shows this?
"we were Gods enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his son."
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where does good come from? quote and story
"God created the world, and it was good" creation story. jesus is someone perfect or good to follow. God being omnibenevolent.
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where does evil come from?
adam and eve story of the fall. Lucifer acting evil in the world.
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what is the quote that says pain is essential?
"all that is best, most valued and longest lasting is born out of pain and suffering."
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what is a quote that says people should pray to deal with suffering?
"cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."
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what did Augustine says about good and evil? (354-430)
he said that evil is just a lack of good, it is not a thing just a lack of something.
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what did Irenaeus say about good and evil? (130-202)
he sugested that people need to suffer to be able to choose between right and wrong.
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why do christians believe they should be like jesus? quote
"christ.. suffered for you and left you an example, so that you would follow in his footsteps."
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what does morality mean?
the study of right and wrong
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what does immoral mean?
somebody who act in the wrong way
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what does decalogue mean?
the ten comandments
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why do christian's believe they should forgive? quote from Jesus
"farther, forgive them for they do not know what they do."
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what does conscience mean?
an inner feeling of the rightness of wrongness of an action.
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