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Evil & Suffering
- Irenaus' theodicy
- similar to Augustines in
the sense that both
theodicy's state that evil
partially origiantes from
humans free will
- choosing to
disobey god
causes this
- choosing to
disobey god
causes this
- God is partially
responsible for the
existance of evil
- world created imperfect so that
humans have the chance to
develop within it
- choose to become alike to God
- process of "soul making"
- If the world was
made perfect- then
humans would
already be in
alikeness to God
- Evil was created by God to
allow humans the option to
choose God instead of evil
- Evil was created by God to
allow humans the option to
choose God instead of evil
- evantually all the evil will
be overun by gods
goodness and all humans
will recive eternal life in
heaven
- choose to become alike to God
- world created imperfect so that
humans have the chance to
develop within it
- modern editions
- John hick
- outlines how the main
point of irenaus'
theodicy is the
importance of allow
humans to develop
themselves
- chosen goodness
of free will is
infintely better
than the artifical
goodness of
robots
- epistemic
distance- so not to
take away free will
- outlines how the main
point of irenaus'
theodicy is the
importance of allow
humans to develop
themselves
- vardy's king
analogy helps to
confirm this
- John hick
- similar to Augustines in
the sense that both
theodicy's state that evil
partially origiantes from
humans free will
- Key ideas
- A key problem that must
be faced by many theists
- this poses a challenge to
"classical theism" which
includes gods
benevolence and
omnipotentence
- this poses a challenge to
"classical theism" which
includes gods
benevolence and
omnipotentence
- philosophically
challenges Gods
benevolence
- Mackies
inconsistant triad
- Gods omnipotence,
benevolence and the
existance of evil are
mutally exclusive
existances
- clear evidence of
evil therefore god
must be either
impotent of
malevolent
- either does
not exist or is
not worth
worship
- clear evidence of
evil therefore god
must be either
impotent of
malevolent
- Gods omnipotence,
benevolence and the
existance of evil are
mutally exclusive
existances
- Hume: rock upon
which athiesm is
built
- Mackies
inconsistant triad
- Theodicys
- created in
responce to
these challenges
- constructed to
provide a
explanation for the
existance of evil
- created in
responce to
these challenges
- A key problem that must
be faced by many theists
- Augustines theodicy
- Based on the
teachings of
genesis 1-3
- world created perfect
and flawless
- Genesis 1:31
God saw all that
he had made and
saw that it was
very good
- the existance of evil
is due to beings with
free will- such as
humans and angles
disobeying god for
lesser evil
- fall of adam genesis 3
- evil is a privation of
gods goodness, which
humanity turned away
from, rather than a
entity in itself
- huamns deserve
evil and suffering-
and natural evil is
a "penal
consequence of
sin"
- all humans deserve
adams punishment
as we were all
seminally present
within adam at the
fall
- God is a just god and
for this reason he will
not put an end to our
self invoked suffering-
as we are worthy of it,
and deserve it as a
punishment
- God does however offer
everyone the chance of
redemption- as he sent his
one son to die for our sins. by
accepting JC we are able to
redeem ourselves
- God does however offer
everyone the chance of
redemption- as he sent his
one son to die for our sins. by
accepting JC we are able to
redeem ourselves
- all humans deserve
adams punishment
as we were all
seminally present
within adam at the
fall
- fall of adam genesis 3
- Genesis 1:31
God saw all that
he had made and
saw that it was
very good
- evil is a privation
rather than an entitiy
- therefore wasnt
"made" by god
- therefore wasnt
"made" by god
- Based on the
teachings of
genesis 1-3
- process theodicy
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