When Bad Things Happen to Good People By: Harold Kushner Pablo Falcon Spring 2010 When Bad Things Happen to Good People Written by: H. Kushner “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” is a very personal book. The author talks about his belief in God and how people perceive the situations they get in as an act of God himself. The author explains that when unfortunate happenings occur people tend to blame it on God or the simple fact that the unfortunate happened because “the person
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In Eleonore Stump’s “Mirror of Evil”, she presents how the evil in the world acts as a mirror by telling us things about ourselves. Stump discerns between two types of evil that are found in the world, which are real wickedness and garden-variety moral evil. “Real wickedness” is explained as sharp and felt immediately, while “garden variety” evil is felt much less than this. For Stump all of us have a way to determine what is evil or not, and this is our moral faculty. Moral faculty allows us to
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Throughout the month I have learned about multiple points and arguments regarding the topic of evil and whether God why God would allow it to exist. The two points that have intrigued me the most are the types of evil and the use of evil to create virtuous character. These points have caused me to rethink my views on evil as well as how other people view evil. Until the topic lecture, I have never categorized evil into different typologies. Previously, I have always thought of evil as one generic
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While John Hicks makes a number of great arguments for soul-making and why God let evil exist, I disagree with his point of good having no point if evil does not exist. Starting on page 177 of the reading, John Hicks provides an argument that boils down to evil must exist in order for good to exist, since nothing can be comparatively good if no evil exists. Specifically, Hicks argues that if God prevents all evils, then nothing we do would be considered evil, thus defeating the whole purpose of defining
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The primary idea of The Problem of Evil, is that the main goal of Christianity is to create a union with God, not to avoid suffering/ evil. From this, comes an argument for Atheism from evil. This explains that, “There is unnecessary evil. The existence of God is incompatible with the existence of unnecessary evil. So, God doesn’t exist.” This is believed due to the idea that if there is an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God, they would see to it that no unnecessary evil existed. However
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GOD’S PLAN FOR SUFFERING A PAPER PRESENTED TO IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR BY GOD’S PLAN FOR SUFFERING The Desire for Answers When exploring the major hurdles of the Christian faith, Lee Strobel appointed George Barna to create a survey that inquired of respondents a single question they would ask God if they were guaranteed to receive a response. The leading question asked by those surveyed was, without surprise, “Why is there suffering and pain in our world?” The
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What is the “Problem of Evil”? What is the difference, if there is a difference, between so-called “moral evil” and “natural evil”? How exactly does John Hick, in his essay “Problem of Evil”, solve the problem of both “Moral evil” and “natural evil”? Do you think that either or both, of Hick’s solutions is really able to solve what appears to be a unique problem of evil in Arthur C. Clarke’s short story, “The Star”? Unhappiness, as a whole, is a challenge to the idea of good. When one hears or
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Is there any type of explanation to justify or explain the way this world is now? If there is, what are those explanations for it? I believe everyone agrees with the fact we live in a very corrupted world where evil has taken over and has no control at all. We say there is evil people in the world but is there such a thing as that or is there a force that triggers them to do evil? Let’s be honest with ourselves, have we ever stopped for a second and actually think about all these questions? My answer
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2. Briefly summarize the problem of evil and suffering. Cite and reference Chapter 9 in the textbook. “Suffering can come in many forms, but, at some point, everyone will suffer deep pain or loss—it is an unavoidable fact of being human (Sharpe, 2014).” The main problem of evil and suffering is why would a good and just God allow so much evil and suffering in our world. If God loves us so much, why would he let bad things happen to good people? 3. Briefly summarize the Christian
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The problem of evil; if God is all good how could he allow his people to suffer? This has been a controversial topic many people have questioned over the centuries. The first record of this question is dated back to the Greek philosopher Epicurus. If God is a benevolent, omniscient and omnipotent God, how could he allow such horrible things to happen to good people? "Western religion has always held that there is a deep problem about why there is pain and other suffering—which there would not
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