Good and evil keywords

Question 1

Conscience

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Evil

Answer 2

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

Free will

Answer 3

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 4

goodness

Answer 4

The quality of being like God seeking the well-being of others selflessly

Question 5

Incarnation

Answer 5

“made flesh” The Christian belief that God became man in the person of Jesus,fully human and fully divine.

Question 6

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 a discoverable by every human being and is the same for all human beings and is the same for all human beings in all places at all times.

Question 7

privation

Answer 7

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

Question 8

suffering

Answer 8

*Pain or loss which harms human beings.Some suffering is caused by other human beings (often called moral evil) some is not (often called natural evil)/