Good And Evil Flashcards
Conscience
Human reason making moral decisions.
The knowledge we have of what is right and wrong and the God-given compulsion within all human beings to do what is right and to avoid what is evil.
Evil
The absence of good and the impulse to seek our own desires at the expense of the good of others which often results in suffering.
Free will
The decision-making part of a person’s mind is called free will.
A will if free if the person is able to choose right from wrong without being controlled by other forces.
Incarnation
Meaning ‘made flesh’.
The Christian belief that God became man in the person of Jesus, fully human and fully divine.
Goodness
The quality of being like God; seeking the well-being of others selflessly.
Natural law
The moral laws of right and wrong which are universal and not dependant on human laws.
The belief in natural law is the belief that the moral law is discoverable by every human being and is the same for all human beings in all places at all times.
Probation
The loss or absence of a quality or something that is normally present.
Evil is a privation of good.
Suffering
Pain or loss which harms human beings.
Some suffering is caused by other human beings (moral evil); some is not (natural evil).
What is natural evil?
Suffering caused by events which have nothing to do with humans and are to do with the way the world is eg hurricanes etc.
What is moral evil?
Suffering caused by human actions and using free will to do bad things eg murder
What does St Augustine say about evil?
Evil is a lack of goodness.
What is original sin?
When Adam and Eve are the forbidden fruit and were exiled.
What do catholics believe about Genesis?
They believe it has a meaning.
What does Genesis show us about God?
God, and everything that He made, is good. “And it was good”
What is the inconsistent triad?
Three qualities of God that can’t all exist a the same time; omnipotence, perfect goodness and evil existing in the world.
