After the usual chitchat, he confides in you that he has been troubled with the news, recent reports of natural catastrophes, wars, disease, and so on. He asks if you could help him make sense of the presence of evil in the world - if indeed God exists. Keeping this scenario in mind, answer the following questions in your essay: • What is the problem of evil? • Define moral evil and natural evil, and illustrate them with examples. • Seek to explain why there is sin among mankind (the philosophical
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worship any one god, diety, or force. They are very spiritual but have no set predominant religion that most people worship. The Chinese culture can be said to be a mix between polytheistic, pantheistic, and atheistic. In the past some sinologists and sociologists such as Jan De Groot and C.K. Yang have sought to fully understand China’s religious position and have conducted many studies about Chinese spirituality and worship. Through time it was found that two types of religion exist in China, diffused
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gift it by their parent the gods, but this doesn’t mean they have the courage to fight against death or have the courage to find the hope in the darkness world. The gods have live foe millions of years this prove they mainly are immortal, how can an immortal god understand the preciousness of life if they never know what was death. “I saw a lot out there in the world, Percy. Didn’t you feel it-the darkness gathering, the monsters growing stronger?
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pinnacle of God’s creation was man. From man God created woman, and they were sinless and called “very good.” Adam and Eve’s purpose was to have dominion over the earth and to multiply. They were given the ability to choose to follow God’s plan or their own lusts, which is a test they failed. Sin entered the world because of their failure to obey God, Adam and Eve were no longer considered pure, resulting in their separation from God. The sin curse exists today in every human because people are the
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limited. Different methods of survival was needed to survive; this led to tool making, the use of fires, and eventually the development of advanced civilizations. The problem that may religions have with evolution is that it means that the creations of god is not as believable. Evolution shows that humans are animals that evolved from other animals, despite the natural belief of separating the two. Humans like to think of themselves has the superior species, so some deny the evolution theory out of the
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different disciplines have been searching for a new ethic to confront environmental issues with - an 'environmental ethic'. Whether religious or secular in nature, this must be able to define the environment and the proper relationship that should exist between human beings and the natural world. The stance that one takes concerning environmental issues, whether from a secular or religious position, is firstly affected by what they consider to be 'rights'. Almost everybody agrees that humans
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heard saying things like “God loves me” and “I feel blessed by God today.” He knows the pastor of his church very well, and he even invited the pastor and his family over for dinner on occasion. This man also loves to get drunk in his favorite bar. He watches pornography when his wife is not home. He only prays when he is in trouble, and the same conditions apply to reading his Bible. Is this man really a Christian? A man like this is not hard to imagine. This lifestyle exists in most churches today
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According to William Paley’s “The Teleological Argument, the existence of God is based on the evidence that the world has an intelligent purpose and order and that the conclusion must be a higher power. Paley claims that the universe is set as a whole and that evidence has been shown of an intelligent designer. His arguments are based on empirical evidence , which is what we can see . The parts of the universe have an order, difficulty and simplicity that bring to mind the parts of a finely crafted
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by realizing and understanding that human suffering exists, and he has also become a lot less faithful. The first way Eliezer has changed is by realizing that the world is cruel, and that human suffering exists. When Eliezer first arrived at Birkenau, he saw
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but does ‘forever’ really meant forever? Was it merely an illusion, to satisfy a person and give some sort of hopeful fantasy, or a reality that we can hold unto? If you start a conversation about ‘forever’, it will always be linked to the word ‘love’ and sometimes ‘life’. However, life is limitless and not endless. At anytime of the day, our life may come to an end hence there are a lot of quotes about “life is too short..”. Human life on this world will very likely continue to exist after
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