6. How did Irenaeus understand the sin of Adam and Eve?
A bad choice made because of insufficient knowledge
A deliberate rebellion
A result of evil in humanity
7. Who argued that Augustine's assertion that a perfect world went wrong is a logical contradiction?
D.Z. Phillips
Schleiermacher
Hick
Hume
8. According to Augustine what caused natural evil to occur?
Disobedient Angels
Human technology
It is part of God's design for moral development
Natural processes beyond human control
9. What is meant by moral evil?
Evil or suffering caused by autonomous moral agents
Evil or suffering caused by impersonal natural forces
10. Who cited the Lisbon earthquake to illustrate the indiscriminate nature of evil?
D.Z. Phillips
McCabe
Voltaire
Hume
11. Which of the following is not part of the inconsistent triad?
Benevolence
Evil
Omniscience
Omnipotent
12. The following formulation of the problem of evil is attributed to who? “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is G
Epicurus
Aristotle
Plato
Hericlitus
13. John Stuart Mill's argument is an example of...
the evidential problem of evil
the logical problem of evil
14. What is meant by the term Epistemic Distance?
The idea that God wants evil so that only a limited number of humans go to heaven
The idea that God makes his existence doubtful to allow true free will
The idea that God is unaware of evil
The idea that God allows evil to occur because sinful humans deserve it
15. Which of the following terms refers to the idea that all humans will ultimately go to heaven?
Limited Atonement
The Second Death
Universal Salvation
Unlimited Atonement
16. How did Augustine describe evil?
As necessary for moral development
As the presence of Satan
As a privation
As the presence of dark forces in humanity
17. Who argued that Augustine's theodicy still means God is responsible for evil because he created a 'faulty product'?
J.L. Mackie
D.Z. Phillips
John Hick
Herbert McCabe
18. Who referred to the problem of evil as the 'keystone of atheism'?
Hans Kung
David Hume
J.L. Mackie
John Hick
19. Who said: “if the law of all creation were justice and the creator omnipotent then, in whatever amount suffering and happiness might be dispensed to the world, each person’s share of them would be exactly proportioned to that person’s good or evil deeds [
John Hick
John Stuart Mill
David Hume
Epicurus
20. Who was said to have remarked that the essence of Hick’s Theodicy is "Here you go, a bit of cancer should help toughen you up!“
