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Evil and Suffering (In the event of a tragedy people often wonder "…
Evil and Suffering
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There are many beliefs regarding this matter consisting of ideas such as the devil or a non-caring god.
For example, St.Augustine remarked: "Either God cannot abolish evil or he will not if he cannot then he is not all powerful and if he will not then he is not all good.
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The rule world argument explains how a natural disaster can destroy a person's hard work with no reasoning it also states that these events are not evenly spread amongst countries and populations
The devil's argument states that good and evil battle for their beliefs, this means that like many situations success is not always the case. When bad reaches the upper hand our planet suffers a misfortune or in other words the consequence
The idea of two forces good and evil being closely matched is called dualism this is idea is featured in many popular books and films such as star wars , lord of the ring and harry potter.
Many religions support the idea of monotheism this expands on the ideas that there is only one god to worship.
Monotheistic religions believe that one God created everything from scratch, advertising that if God had made everything then he must have made the devil for a reason. This means that God has to take the blame for situations the devil creates. This links back to the idea that st Augustine made
Free will is another idea that believes that God created an all good world where he placed humans and angels , he gave them all free will but some angels and humans misused their freedom therefore creating larger issues across the earth
God created a salvation plan where he entered the world in the form of Jesus Christ and through the process of his death and resurrection he came face to face with evil and saved the souls of humans from all supernatural evil
The salvation plan protects humans from all natural evil but cannot shield us from misused will created by humans to counterpart gods plan
god granted humans with the gift of free will because he wanted them to be unlike any other creature, animals are not morally good or bad, they are not morally responsible for their actions because they do not have free will.
Creationists are people who believe in religious myths and stories, not necessarily the whole story, they pick out pieces that describe and predict real-life events. :
Religious myths are not stories that were created to be believed, they were created to express a religious idea or belief and help people to have a better understanding of the religion and its underlining moral
For example, the Adam and ve story might not be historically true but it expresses the reasoning for our existence and gods intention for what he wants humans to be portrayed as
Moral evil is when humans create situations that can be prevented such a murder, war, torture, genocide and poverty. These situations can be prevented but are only done by pure evil morals
Situations such as hurricanes , earthquakes , volcanoes and any other natural disaster are not examples of moral evil , these events cannot be prevented and are not created by evil souls but are created by natural evil
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God wants humans to be good but cannot force it upon us otherwise this would be fake goodness, therefore, we would be similar to animals because we are not morally good or bad
I believe that stories from the Bible are not historically true but are there to express moral of Christianityand the intentions for human life
I believe that St Augustines statement was correct, if God wants us to live in 'paradise' and live in happiness and peace then why wouldn't he prevent natural disasters that devastate thouands of lives
I do not believe that the devil theory is real, I believe that from every bad situation atleast one piece of good can emerge from it, if the devil wanted to create evil he would form eternal evil