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Good And Evil - Philosophy Flashcards

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What are the two different Christian concepts of evil?

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Moral evil

Natural evil

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What is the definition of moral evil?

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The evil that people (humans) bring about themselves or on others.

People choose poor behaviour, greed, dishonesty or selfishness. Some of the cruelest evil in the world is caused by human beings

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What is free will to christians?

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The belief that God have everyone the choice to do good or evil and make their own decisions and if people do not make good decisions, then they will bring about suffering

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What is the definition of natural evil?

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The evil that shows itself through natural disasters

These events do not seem to be anyone’s fault and natural evil is often very unfair. Eg when good people suffer from disease or natural disasters strike the poorest people in the world

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Give some examples of natural evil… name 3

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Earthquakes, floods, disease, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes

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What are the three problems with evil? (Humanist) name 2

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If god is all loving … then why doesn’t he stop evil that harms people?

If god is all powerful … why doesn’t he stop the devil and suffering?

If god is all knowing … why did he create the devil know that evil would result?

In conclusion god cannot exist as well as evil

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What’s a theodicy?

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Views on the idea of evil

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What are 2 Christian responses to evil? (5)

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  • you can’t have good without bad
  • suffering is preparation for heaven
  • suffering is a test from god
  • prayer
  • suffering is a mystery
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What are monotheists?

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People that believe there is only one god

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Christians are _________ so they only believe there is one god

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Monotheists

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Christians believe God is extremely _____ and _________ from everyone else

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Holy and different

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What the 3 ‘O’ words to describe God?

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Omnipotent

Omniscient

Omnibenevolent

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What does omnipotent mean?

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Powerful (has a P in it)

This means he can create, destroy and change any part of the world he wishes

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What does omniscient mean?

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Seeing (has an S in it!!)

This means he’s all seeing and all knowing. He sees the past, present and future all at once. There is no secrets from God

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What does omnibenevolent mean?

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Love - (it has love spelt backwards in it!)

God is the source of all love in the universe. He wants what is best for all humans and does everything because he cares for people.

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God is all _______, all________ and all________

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Knowing
Loving
Powerful

17
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Why do some Christians think that there is evil in the world?

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Because of Satan (the devil)

18
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Who is Satan to Christians?

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The devil who is believed to be the enemy of god and rules in hell. He tries to make humanity turn away from goodness.

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According to early Christine doctrine, what was he story as to how the devil was created?

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He was created good but was jealous of god and decided to fight against him instead of being obedient

20
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The devil appears in the bible __ times

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3

21
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What’s the literal and symbolic views on the devil?

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Literal - he is a real person that stands for everything bad in the world. He tries to tempt good people to do bad things

Symbolic - some say it’s just a poetic way of explaining how people feel pulled in different directions and why they often want to do things even if they know they are wrong

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What are the 5 different Christian responses to suffering?

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  • it’s necessary
  • they will be a life after death in heaven
  • suffering is caused by sin
  • humans have free will - up to them
  • God suffers people, and that’s part of his plan
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What’s the word that helps u remember the 5 Christian ways of suffering?

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Nuclear - necessary 
Helicopters - heaven
Scare - sin
French - free will 
People - plan
24
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What does theodicy mean? The

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‘In defence of God’ and it’s an argument against the problem of evil.

25
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What are the two theodicies?

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  • Angustinian theodicy

* Iranaeas theodicy

26
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What’s the Augustinian theodicy?

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Evil is caused by the absence of goodness caused by the free will of humans and the choices they make.

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What’s the iranaean theodicy?

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The idea that you need bad to appreciate the good and evil is to be overcome by the kind actions of humans

28
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What are the 3 main ideas about suffering that we get from the story of Job?

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  1. Suffering is a test
  2. Suffering is a punishment for sin
  3. Suffering is a part of gods plan
29
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Christians often turn to the Bible in order to learn the right way to behave. The bible is divided into 2 sections which are…

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The Old Testament and the New Testament

30
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What kind of things does the Old Testament teach people about good and evil?

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Teachings on morality. Also involves the Ten Commandments which are a universal set of rules e.g do not steal, do not kill

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What kind of things does the New Testament teach people about good and evil?

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Teachings about morality. Includes many parables (stories) that convey a message of how to behave.

32
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How do Christians make moral decisions? They turn to… name 2

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The bible
10 commandments 
Church
Jesus- what would Jesus do?
Conscience
33
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What’s a conscience?

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The ability to understand the difference between right and wrong. In some people this seems to be stronger than others, our conscience comes from a number of factors like upbringing. People might feel guilty if they don’t follow their right/wrong conscience

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What’s the example of Jesus when talking about suffering and good and bad?

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Since Jesus suffered and died for all humanity, it is important for Christians to understand his message about the Kingdom of heaven. Jesus’ sacrifice shows us how we must accept God’s will.

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What are the 3 theories that Christian Philosophers have come up with? And what are they?

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Absolute morality - someone who will always follow the rules in any situation (e.g. 10commandments)

Relative morality - the idea that there aren’t actions that are always right or wrong, it depends on individual circumstances

Situation ethics - actions are right when they are done out of love - love is the ultimate law

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What is the holy trinity?

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That God is one but has 3 parts, the father(creator), the son, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit which gives strength and power

37
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Where are the 3 times that the devil appears in the bible?

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  1. Garden of Eden - the serpent tempt eve to eat the fruit
  2. Temptation of Jesus when he was fasting in the desert. The devil tempted Jesus to eat when he was fasting
  3. The story of Job - tempting him to turn away from god, the devil took everything away from him to test his faith in god
38
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What does immoral and moral mean?

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Immoral is the wrong thing to do and moral is the right thing to do

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