Retort To Ayer : JOHN HICKS

Question 1

What argument does Hicks provide ?

Answer 1

Estachological verification

Question 2

Hick: eschatological verification

What parable does hicks use ?

Answer 2

• Hicks uses a parable of two travellers on a road who arguing if the road leads to a celestial city or a road that ends
• when they run into a corner the celestial city is there so one of them
  Was wrong and other proved right

Question 3

Hick: eschatological verification

What does hicks parable mean ?

Answer 3

That religious statements are meaningful estachologically at the end possible to verify Gods existence

Question 4

Hick: eschatological verification

What does hicks arguement link to ?

Answer 4

Soul making theodicy

Question 5

Hick: eschatological verification

How does think parable link to the soul making theodicy of hicks

Answer 5

• One sees the journey in the parable as a pilgrimage and the other as a celestial
  City and the pleasant part is encouragement of obstacles, lessons and endurance
• We face challenges but they exist to prepare our souls for Heaven and suffering is an instrumental growth for heaven

Question 6

Hick: eschatological verification

What does the parable represent ?

Answer 6

• celestial city : heaven
• traveller: theist who believes
• traveler who does not believe: atheist who is just going through journey

Question 7

Hick: eschatological verification

What does hicks say about religious statement ?

Answer 7

they’re verifiable and falsifiable after death due to estachologically verification. Religious stamenent can be meaning when made during this lifetime as when you die you can empirically verify so meaningful to believers

Question 8

Hick: eschatological verification

What does Hicks say about believing in God

Answer 8

Believing in God is a commitment that influences everything and make things or being a believer meaningful