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What kind of evil does the holocaust come under? |
Moral |
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What kind of evil does earthquake come under? |
Natural |
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What is the biggest obstacle to a believer’s faith? |
The fact of evil and suff |
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What three attributes does the God of classical theism have? |
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Choose one and explain how it is undermined by the existence of evil and suffering. |
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Finish the hypothesis: either God is not omnipotent OR He is not Omni benevolent OR … |
Evil does not exist |
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Who said the above? |
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Who said ‘there is evil in the world; therefore God does not exist’ but rejected this conclusion? |
Aquinas |
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What word means a justification of the existence of evil by God? |
Theodicy |
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Whose was the belief that God’s creation was perfect? |
Augustine |
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On what did he base this idea? |
Genesis 1:26 |
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What did he call the doctrine of the sins of Adam and Eve being passed down to all mankind forever? |
Original Sin |
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How does he justify the continued existence of evil and suffering? i.e. what / how are we compensated or rewarded? |
Through faith in Christ |
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Whose solution to the problem explained that God didn’t make the world perfect anyway? |
Irenaeus |
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Why? |
To allow souls to develop |
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His phrase was this world is a ‘Vale of …….’ |
Suffering |
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How does he justify the continued existence of evil and suffering? i.e. what reward does he offer to all as compensation? |
Heaven |
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What example story does Peter Vardy tell to explain why God allows us free choice to worship him? |
The peasant girl and the king |
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With which solution does the theory of evolution conflict? |
Augustine’s |
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What do both solutions have in common that they blame for the existence of suffering? |
Free-will |