RELIGIOUS STUDIES: SUFFERING & EVIL KEY WORDS

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Evil
The opposite of good
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Free will
Having the ability to choose or determine one's own actions
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Impersonal force
The idea that evil is a power outside of people that draws them to evil
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Man-made suffering
Suffering caused by the actions of humans
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Moral/Man-made evil
The negative results of a bad choice, or deliberate attempt to make other people suffer, made by humans abusing their free will
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Natural evil
The harm or damage that is done to people and the world as a result of the forces of nature and structure of the Earth
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Natural suffering
Suffering caused by nature
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Nature of evil
What evil is like, whether a personal being, a psychological phenomenon or impersonal force
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Personal being
The idea that evil is an evil spirit or devil rather than an impersonal force
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Psychological phenomenon
An idea about the nature of evil that it is something arising from the mind of a person
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Responsibilty
The idea that we have certain obligations to fulfil and that we are in charge of our own actions
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Suffering
When people have to face and live with unpleasant events or conditions
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Transendence
The idea that God is beyond and outside life on Earth and the universe (which is why he does not intervene in cases of evil and suffering)
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The Fall
When Adam and Eve disobeyed God and were cast out of the garden of Eden, this was the cause of 'original sin': the reason why all of us commit sins
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Having the ability to choose or determine one's own actions

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Free will

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The idea that evil is a power outside of people that draws them to evil

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Suffering caused by the actions of humans

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The negative results of a bad choice, or deliberate attempt to make other people suffer, made by humans abusing their free will

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