evil that is caused as a result of the actions of a free will agent
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Free will agents have the ability to choose good or evil, so their choice may...
inflict suffering from others
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Because free will agents have the opportunity to do good, God...
cannot be held accountable for moral evil
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Give 4 examples of moral evil.
murder, theft, **** and genocide
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What is natural evil?
evil that is caused by the means of a force outside of the control of free will agents
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Give 3 examples of natural evil.
earthquakes, flooding and disease.
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Epicurus proposed...
the logical problem of evil
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Epicurus' logical problem of evil stated that...
it is a philosophical contradiction to the characteristics of God (omnipotent and omnibenevolent) that beings created deliberately by God suffer
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State a quote by Epicurus.
"either God wants to abolish evil and cannot: or he can, but does not want to"
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Which form of the Problem of Evil did Mackie propose?
the logical problem of evil (modern development)
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What are the three elements of the inconsistent triad?
God is omnipotent, God is omnibenevolent and evil exists
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What is meant by the inconsistent triad?
it is logically inconsistent for the three statements to exist simultaneously
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Mackie says that if God is omnipotent, ...
he has the power to remove evil
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Mackie says that if God is omnibenevolent, ...
he wouldn't want creation to suffer
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Mackie attempted to solve the problem by...
removing one element of the inconsistent triad
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If we suppose that God is not omnibenevolent, ...
maybe there exists a malicious God who enjoys seeing creation suffer, but this is too far from religious views and would be a God unworthy of worship
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If we suppose that God is not omnipotent, ...
maybe there exists a God who wants to remove evil but cannot, but this wouldn't satisfy believers in a transcendent God who created the world ex nihilo
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If we suppose that evil does not exist, ...
there would be no contradiction in terms because it would be our own human perception that is at fault
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Hume pointed out that the effects of evil...
are too widespread and tangible so it would be nonscensical to dismiss its existence
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What is the paradox of omnipotence stated by Mackie?
if the wills of moral agents are really free this must mean that even God cannot control them, meaning that God is no longer omnipotent
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Which form of the Problem of Evil did William Rowe propose?
the evidential problem of evil
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What was Rowe's argument based upon?
intense human and animal suffering
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What was Rowe's book called?
"The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism" (1979)
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Rowe said that it seems reasonable that God would allow...
some limited suffering to allow growth and development
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Rowe couldn't accept that God would allow...
intense suffering
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Rowe said that as God is omniscient, he...
knows when intense suffering is going to take place
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Rowe said that as God is omnipotent, he...
is able to prevent intense suffering from taking place
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Rowe said that as God is omnibenevolent, he...
would avoid pointless suffering
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Rowe noted that evil and suffering without purpose...
does happen
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Rowe concluded that...
God probably does not exist
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Which form of the Problem of Evil did Gregory S Paul propose?
the statistical problem of evil
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What does Paul focus on in his argument?
premature deaths
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Paul stated that since God first spoke to man, ...
over 50 billion children have died naturally before the "age of mature consent" and 300 billion have died naturally but prenatally
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Paul calls this...
the "holocaust of the children"
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Paul said that these children were...
too young to make choices about God and had no free will
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Paul argued that no all-loving and all-powerful God...
would allow this
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Paul concluded...
that God doesn't exist
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Card 2
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What are the 2 main types of evil?
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moral evil and natural evil
Card 3
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What is moral evil?
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Card 4
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Free will agents have the ability to choose good or evil, so their choice may...
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Card 5
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Because free will agents have the opportunity to do good, God...
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