GOOD AND EVIL

Question 1

evil

Answer 1

• the absence of good and the impulses to seek our own desires
• this is often at the expense of the good of others which often result in suffering

Question 2

suffering

Answer 2

• pain or loss which harms human beings
• some suffering is caused by other human beings (moral evil); some is not (natural evil)

Question 3

privation

Answer 3

• the loss or absence of a quality or something that is normally present
• evil is a privation of good

Question 4

goodness

Answer 4

• the quality of being like god
• seeking the well-being and of others selflessly

Question 5

free-will

Answer 5

• the decision making part of a persons mind is called the will
• a will is free if a person is able to choose right from wrong without being controlled by other forces

Question 6

conscience

Answer 6

• human reason making moral decisions
• the knowledge we have of what is right and wrong given by god

Question 7

natural law

Answer 7

• the moral laws of right and wrong which are universal and not dependent on human laws
• the belief in natural law is the belief that the moral law is discoverable by every human being
• it is the same for all human beings in all places at all times

Question 8

incarnation

Answer 8

• “made flesh”
• the christian belief that god became man in the person of jesus, fully human and fully divine