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TPE Revision For Essay - Coggle Diagram
TPE Revision For Essay
Basics
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Omnipotent - this means that God is completely powerful. Benevolent - this means that God is loving and caring. Omniscient - this means that God knows everything.
The Creator - this means that God made and designed the world.
Inconsistent Triad
The Inconsistent Triad is an argument against the concept of an all-powerful and all-loving God whilst suffering persists. The existence of suffering alongside an all-loving (omnibenevolent) and all-powerful (omnipotent) God are argued to be contradictory.
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Problem Of Evil
Responses
Response One: Free Will
God allowed us to choose our own path, choose our own decisions rather than be puppets on a string. Some people use it to do good things and some use it to do bad things. So evil and suffering are a problem caused by humans and not God. - John Hick
Response Three: Original Sin
Some Christians believe because Eve disobeyed God, when she ate the apple in the Garden of Eden, that this means there is then now there is a little of this evil in all of us. This explains why some people do bad things. It also explains natural disasters as a way that humans are punished by God for
disobedience. - Iranaeus
The soul-making theodicy of Irenaeus of Lyon and John Hick is also supported by the Biblical narrative, because it presents suffering and adversity as coming from God's curse on Adam and Eve and part of God's plan to make us into his 'likeness'..
Response Two : Life Is A Test We will be judged and God will look all the good things and bad things we did. As we have free will then we can choose how to behave and some people behave badly. This only explains moral evil. However Natural Evil could be explained as a way to see how we respond to help other people in need. Evil and suffering are needed to give us the chance to good things and be rewarded in heaven..
the existence of evil and suffering is reconciled with the assumption that an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God exists by assuming that no God exists.
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