Good And Evil Flashcards
Moral Evil
Evil done by humans
-comes from Adam and Eve
Natural Evil
Bad things in the world
-comes from Angels rebelling against God many years before humans
Ireneaen Theodicy
Genesis- Adam + Eve were like young children in a garden they didn’t understand.
Life is a journey from the image of God into his likeness
YOU ARE BORN LIKE A BLOCK OF STONE, AND GOD IS THE SCULPTURER, SCULPTURING YOU INTO A BETTER PERSON
Humans have potential to become perfect - God deliberately made evil
Genuine moral development is only possible in a world where pain and suffering are real.
“Pain is Gods megaphone, to wake up a dead world”
“Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness” - Genesis 1:26
Inconsistent triad
God is all loving - omniscient
God is all powerful - omnipotent
Yet evil exists
Conscience
The voice of God telling you what to do
Free will defence
In order to make the world as good as possible, God gave humans free will
“I saw Satan fall like lightening from heaven”
Saw by Jesus
Luke 10:18
“Father forgive the them as they do not know what they are doing”
When Jesus was crucified
Luke 23:34
Augustinian Theodicy
Adam + Eve sinned - brought evil into the world
Evil is the absence of God
“Pain is Gods megaphone, to wake up a deaf world”
Ireanean Theodicy
“Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness”
Genesis 1:26
“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good”
Genesis 1:31
“I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over man; she must be silent”
Timothy 2:12
“For Adam was formed first, then Eve… it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner”
Timothy 2:12
“For man did not come from woman, but woman from man”
Corinthians 11:8
