The Problem of Evil

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1. What's the key simplistic difference between Ireneaus and Augustine's beliefs?

  • Ireneaus believed in a fatherly God whereas Augustine believed in a punisher God
  • Ireneaus believed evil had no purpose wheras Augustine believed it did
  • Augustin believes God made a 'perfect world' whereas Ireneaus believes God made us purposefully imperfect
  • God is omnipotent said Ireneaus, but not according to Augustine
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2. As our universe is complex....

  • ...there's greater potential for us to reject God and do moral evil
  • ....we can never be sure whether God exists or not, there's an epistemic distance
  • ....God must have created it because he's omnipotent
  • ....God must've done a lot of persuading

3. Why doesn't God intervene to prevent evil?

  • Because he's fair, so we still have to suffer the consequences of our actions
  • To help us to become moral
  • Because he hates humanity
  • Because he can't, evil exists regardless of whether God wants it to or not

4. What scholar came up with 'The Brothers Karamazov', with Ivan 'returning his ticket to Heaven' due to the evil in the world.

  • Schleirmacher
  • Rowe
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Hick

5. How does Hick justify animal pain?

  • Suffering warns animals of danger, which helps them to exist through natural selection. We need evolution to create the epistemic distance.
  • Because they can't grow spiritually
  • If humans have pain, animals need to have pain too, otherwise it'd be obvious that God exists, closing the epistemic distance
  • He doesn't. He says this is part of God as a flawed creator.
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