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THE PROBLEM OF EVIL (What Is The Problem Of Evil? (evidential problem (God…
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
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Augustine
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key ideas
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Free Will
all evil, moral and natural, arises from the wrong moral choices of free and rational beings
"the cause of evil is the deflection of the will of a being who is mutably good from the good which is immutable."
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Augustine uses the term 'self creation of evil' to maintain the innocence of God and the guilt of his creatures
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strengths
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values free will
We have experience of free will causing suffering in our world so this is a natural conclusion to come to.
they way we look at evil is incorrect, sometimes it is just nature
Natural evil came about of God’s order of creation was changed and moral evil comes about by the continued use of free will. Neither of these places the blame on God so it is not in tension with the belief of him as omnibenevolent.
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Hick
weaknesses
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immoral to save all
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Swinburne the idea that all are ultimately saved is unfair. It would make us wonder what the point was in behaving morally if we were all to get to heaven in the end.
For Swinburne part of our free will requires the possibility of rejecting God and his salvation. If there is no Hell then we are not truly free. Freedom includes the real freedom to ‘damn ourselves.’
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HICKS RESPONSE
Hick believes that if we truly understand God’s Omnibenevolence then we will see no place for an eternal punishment
God’s love is so great that eventually the whole universe will be won over and brought to perfection with him.
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key ideas
universalism/purgatory
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he says that the idea of hell is part of the problem of evil, therefore universalism fits here as he believes that everyone is going to be saved and that hell is just a purgatory for reflection and that it is temporary and is again apart of the soul making process
epistemic distance
a knowledge gap between God and Humans. Humans are not born with innate knowledge of gods existence and have to seek God through faith.
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:red_cross: but would they be true good actions, surely if you reverse the bathtub theory if you save your brother from drowning because you will get money are you truly doing it for the right reasons?
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soul making
life is about growing as a person, idea stems from growth. He states that we cannot grow as a person or learn if we had no challenges or difficulties
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