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2. What is meant by the term Epistemic Distance?

  • The idea that God makes his existence doubtful to allow true free will
  • The idea that God wants evil so that only a limited number of humans go to heaven
  • The idea that God allows evil to occur because sinful humans deserve it
  • The idea that God is unaware of evil

3. 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!“

  • D.Z. Phillips
  • J.L. Mackie
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Richard Swinburne

4. John Stuart Mill's argument is an example of...

  • the evidential problem of evil
  • the logical problem of evil

5. Who said "As a runaway horse is better than a stone which does not run away because it lacks self-movement and sense perception, so the creature is more excellent which sins by free will than that which does not sin only because it has no free will.”

  • Herbert McCabe
  • John Hick
  • St Augustine of Hippo
  • J.L. Mackie

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