Good And Evil

Question 1

Define Conscience

Answer 1

Human reason and 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.

Question 2

Define Evil

Answer 2

Evil is 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.

Question 3

Define Free Will

Answer 3

The decision making part of a person’s mind is the will. A will is free if a person is able to choose right from wrong without being controlled by other forces.

Question 4

Define Goodness

Answer 4

The quality of being like God: seeming the well-being of others selflessly.

Question 5

Define Incarnation

Answer 5

‘Made flesh’ The Christian be life that God became man in Jesus, fully human and fully divine.

Question 6

Define Natural Law

Answer 6

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 and is the same for all human beings in all places at all times.

Question 7

Define Privation

Answer 7

Privation is the loss or absence of a quality of something that is normally present. Evil is a privation of good.

Question 8

Define Suffering

Answer 8

Pain or loss which harms human being. Some suffering is caused by other humans; some is caused naturally.