Just based off of the reading and the video my opinion is that people believe in the power of evil because they also believe there is a power of good. A lot of religions do this where they believe things in form of the "manichean frame." The belief in manicheanism or the manichean frame is that people believe that the world is consistently in conflict with lightness vs darkness, good vs. evil, or Yin vs. Yang. Essentially, people would find it hard to believe that a great omnipotent god who serves
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PHIL 1F90 (Fall 2013): Fall term essay assignment. ric brown Your essay should address just one (1) of the following questions. Do not answer both questions! Question 1. What exactly is the “problem of evil”? What is the difference, if there really is any difference, between so-called “moral evil” and so-called “natural evil”? How does John Hick, in his essay “Problem of Evil”, set about solving the problem of both “moral evil” and “natural evil”? Do you think
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‘A belief in miracles leads to the concept of a God who favours some but not all of his creation’. Discuss. A miracle is either a “violation of the laws of nature,” or “divinely caused,” and Christians argued with the latter definition, further suggesting that miracles are revelations. Both approaches leads us to believe that God favors some but not others because miracles are “infrequent,” and seemingly arbitrary, which questions his worthiness of worship. A belief in miracles leads to a partisan
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ARIIKE FAGBURE L6CG RELIGIOUS STUDIES (Philosophy of Religion) A. Explain what is meant in the Bible by the phrase “God is good” The goodness of God is first revealed in his actions as a Creator. Genesis chapters 1-3 contain the Creation story. God created the world out of nothing – “creation ex nihilo”. Each act of creation is seen to be good. "And he saw that it was good" (Genesis 1: 10). The end result of God's creation is the Earth and mankind. Everything created was made for man to take
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The problem of Evil is an argument that seeks to disprove God’s existence. In this paper, I will iterate and elaborate on the problem of Evil and deliver critical points that question the soundness and the strength of the argument so as to assess the argument from a critique’s standpoint. The problem of evil is based on the personalities of God, such that God is omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient. So, if such a perfect being with all the personalities were to exist, there would be no evil
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Guided Analysis: Suffering Worksheet Name: Address the following questions, responding to each one directly below the question. Your total word count (including all questions and your answers) should be between 750-1,000 words. Include a reference page. 1. Describe a time when you experienced a significant period of suffering. How did you deal with that experience? How did you find comfort in the midst of suffering? A time when I experienced suffering was when I was faced to deal with the
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Philosophical Essay Part 1 5. Socrates asks Euthyphro, “Are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good, or are they morally good because they are willed by God?” (1) How does this question relate to the Divine Command Theory of morality? (2) What are the philosophical implications associated with each option here? Divine command theory is widely held to be refuted by an argument known as “the Euthyphro dilemma”. This argument is named after Plato’s Euthyphro dialogue
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Philosophical understanding of evil can only exist by acknowledging the existence or non-existence of god. If you cant understand “good,” you can’t comprehend “evil.” What makes this issue so hard to confront for some is that it makes us question our belief in God. How we each perceive evil may vary. The three types of evil that exist are: moral evil, natural evil and necessary evil. Since discussing evil is most often in the context of God, we will first examine the theists approach to evil, some
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It was not without God’s power to create a world containing moral good without creating one containing moral evil. 3. God created a world containing moral good. 4. Therefore, God created a world containing moral evil. 5. Therefore, evil exists. How does faith inform how we view evil? There are two approaches that can explain faith and how we view evil. Nash asserts there is moral evil and natural evil and both are found in deductive and inductive forms. The deductive form tends to cause from a Christian
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Inner evil is something that everyone struggles with. Are the things I do evil? Does what I do make me evil? Can evil be misread? All of those are questions asked but the answer has yet to be found. Just because someone doesn't give a homeless person money, are they evil? When a good person kills an un-innocent person, are they evil or did they do it for a good reason? These are just things that people struggles with on a daily basis. Can you recognise that good maybe evil, or will it remain evil
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