"God saw all that he had made and saw that it was very good"
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Natural Evil.
"Penal consequences of sin"
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John Hick (SECONDARY OPINION on the problem of evil)
"Physical pain, mental suffering and moral wickedness"
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The problem of evil stated in Confessions.
"Either God is not able to abolish evil or not willing; if he is not able then he is not all-powerful; if he is not willing then he is not all-good"
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J. L. Mackie; Evil and omnipotence 1955 (CRITICISM 1.)
"If there is no logical impossibility in a man's freely choosing the good on one, or on several occasions, there cannot be a logical impossibility of his freely choosing the good on every occasion"
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J. L. Mackie; Evil and omnipotence 1955 (CRITICISM 2.)
"God was not then, faced with a choice between making innocent automata and beings who in acting freely would, would sometimes go wrong"
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J. L Mackie; Evil and omnipotence 1955 (CRITICISM 3.)
"There was open to him the obviously better possibility of making beings who would act freely but always go right. Clearly, his failure to avail himself of this possibility is inconsistent with his being both omnipotent and wholly good"
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P. J. McHugh; The Problem of Evil 2006 (SECONDARY OPINION)
"There are, according to Augustine, higher and lower, greater and lesser goods in immense abundance and variety"
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J. S. Mill (SECONDARY OPINION on the problem of evil)
"How can an all powerful loving God be held to have created a world 'steeped in misery from its crust to its core'"
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Julie Arliss (SECONDARY OPINION)
"Systematic abuse of free will is able to distort a good God given nature"
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G. R. Evans (SUPPORT)
"It (evil) is the 'creation' of a creature, sprung from man's misuse of his will and the misuse of his will and the misuse of his wills of the fallen angels..."
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Herbert McCabe (SUPPORT on the aesthetic argument)
"The lion is being fulfilled, indeed he is being filled, precisely by what damages the lamb... Being eaten by a lion is undoubtedly bad for the lamb... on the other hand it is actually good from the lion's point of view"
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The nature of evil. (City of God XI)
"Evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name 'evil'"
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Deprivation of good. (Confessions VII)
"All which is corrupted is deprived from good"
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Moral low. (City of God XII)
"For when the will abandons what is above itself, and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil--not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked"
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Free will. (Confessions VII)
"And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of our doing ill"
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Definition of evil. (Confessions VII)
Perversion of the will, turned aside from... God."
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Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Vol. 3, 138 (CRITICISM on evil)
"If a being is perfect in its goodness, he held, it would never sin even if it were free to. Evil would then have to create itself ex nihilo, which is ridiculous"
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Peter Vardy, thinker’s guide to evil (SECONDARY OPINION)
"everything can suffer an evil by being caused to fall short of what it should be but only angels and human beings can freely choose… they have been given FREEDOM and this freedom can be misused. It is the misuse of freedom that gives rise to moral
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
"Penal consequences of sin"
Back
Natural Evil.
Card 3
Front
"Physical pain, mental suffering and moral wickedness"
Back
Card 4
Front
"Either God is not able to abolish evil or not willing; if he is not able then he is not all-powerful; if he is not willing then he is not all-good"
Back
Card 5
Front
"If there is no logical impossibility in a man's freely choosing the good on one, or on several occasions, there cannot be a logical impossibility of his freely choosing the good on every occasion"
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