Hick - strength

Question 1

What does Hick highlight

Answer 1

The importance of humans being allowed to develop for themselves

Question 2

What did he suggest about if God made humanity perfectly

Answer 2

Then this would have been the goodness of robots, which would automatically love God without question or thought

Question 3

What is the primary purpose?

Answer 3

Soul making

= the presence of evil helps people develop and grow

Question 4

This theodicy lead to Hick writing about what?

Answer 4

Sin creating an epistemic gap between humans and God

- humans become separated from God through sin

Question 5

the universe is more or less what? what did Hick call it ?

Answer 5

As God intends it to be

- The vale of soul making

Question 6

Does moral and non-moral evil exist for a reason?` and what is it?

Answer 6

Yes

- to develop faith in God and virtue by overcoming that evil

Question 7

For soul making to take place what must God do?

Answer 7

Create human beings at an epistemic distance from himself