Good and Evil

Question 1

What is evil?

Answer 1

The absence of good, usually results in suffering/harm

Question 2

What is natural evil?

Answer 2

Suffering caused by natural occurrences

Question 3

What is moral evil?

Answer 3

Suffering caused by humanity

Question 4

What is suffering?

Answer 4

Usually a result of evil

Question 5

what do Christians believe about God’s creation?

Answer 5

Everything which God created is good

Question 6

Who do Christians think the power of evil is?

Answer 6

Satan

Question 7

What did God give us so that we could decide what to do for ourselves?

Answer 7

Free well

Question 8

The story of the origins of the devil as a fallen angel is not found in the Bible what other religious book is it found?

Answer 8

Apocrypha -Jewish and Christian religious writings not in bible though

Question 9

Where is that reference to Satan in the Bible?

Answer 9

Luke 4:1 -13 Jesus temptation in the wilderness

Question 10

What is the fall?

Answer 10

when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit

Question 11

In the image of God humans were supposed to be immortal but what lost this?

Answer 11

When they ate the forbidden fruit

Question 12

What did the story of the fall introduce?

Answer 12

Original sin

Question 13

Why is this event called the fall?

Answer 13

Because Adam and Eve were driven out of the garden of Eden

Question 14

What is original sin?

Answer 14

The sin which Eve bought into the wild when she picked the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden

Question 15

Finish the quote: “all sin entered the world through one man……. what does it suggest?

Answer 15

…..death came to all men because we all sinned” - suggests we were born evil

Question 16

What is redemption and give an example?

Answer 16

Redemption is when you have a chance at redeeming yourself
e.g by rising from the dead Jesus atoned for the original sin of humanity and overcame the power of death -people were redeemed from there sins because he died