Harold Kushner’s General Propositions Reflection Essay Harold Kushner illustrates ways of coping with unfortunate events that occur at inconvenient times to individuals who do not deserve them. In order to convey his message effectively he used The Book of Job as an example to his audience. He then made a point to discuss three propositions that go along with the reading. However‚ only two may be accepted whilst the third be denied. The propositions consisted of: 1) God is all-powerful 2) God is
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Deborah Falcon 091457 TH151 – P First Term Paper The chapter that I chose to reflect on for this paper is Chapter 8 from C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: The Shocking Alternative. For most part‚ the heaviest question asked throughout this chapter is why evil exists‚ and why God allowed it to exist. A human being who is probably sick and tired of all the evil and suffering in the world would say that if only evil can just stop existing – if only suffering would stop. If only human beings
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Descartes was a foundationalist. His goal was to find certain indubitable ideas to use as a foundation to build his thoughts. His aim was to find a single or multiple certainties to build his thoughts off of. Descartes figures that if he can come up with a hyperbolic doubt and some idea can still survive through this ultimate doubt then this is the most certain scenario. This hyperbolic doubt becomes to believe is‚ “ not that there is a supremely good God who is the source of all truth‚ but that
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The problem of evil as stated from Mackie’s perspective is that it challenges the idea of God and his characteristics of omnipotence‚ omniscient and omni-benevolence. He says that if such a being exist why it would let bad things happen to innocent‚ good people and in the world in general? Mackie propones the use of deductive logic to conclude that God does not exist because if he would exist he would stop evil‚ his position is stated as the logical problem of evil. The construction of his arguments
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Exploring the "dark side" I have raised many personal questions. These questions vary from the seriousness of an evil act or whether or not it should be considered evil. For example‚ during class we’ve discussed stupid evil. Personally I don’t believe stupid evil is true evil at all. Lars Svendsen’s four categories of evil consist of demonic‚ instrumental‚ idealistic‚ and stupid evil. My belief is Svenden’s four categories of evil should be just three‚ in thus so removing stupid evil from the list
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God and the Problem of Evil by B.C. Johnson discusses what is called the problem of evil in philosophy. He specifically talks about the evidential problem of evil. The evidential problem of evil is the argument that if God is an all-powerful and all-knowing being than he cannot be all-good or omnibenevolent. How can an all-good God exist and allow evil things to happen to humankind? God supposedly has the power to stop evil from occurring‚ yet he does not. In the article by B.C. Johnson ponders this
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t Augustine 354-430 CE‚ developed a theodicy in order to tackle the ‘Problem of Evil’‚ the seeming contradiction between God being omnipotent‚ omnibenevolent and there still being evil in the world. As a Christian‚ he believed that God had made everything that exists‚ and that at the moment of creation‚ everything was perfect‚ because ‘God saw all that he had made‚ and it was very good’ Genesis 1: 31. He therefore concluded that ‘evil is not a substance’; it is merely ‘Privatio Boni’ or privation
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question a good theodicy is something that must have strong evidence and does a balance between good and evil. Something that defends God being good and not evil. C.S. Lewis in “The Problem of Evil” talks about theodicy‚ defends God’s goodness against evil in the world by talking about how works have multiple meanings (Lewis 16). Lewis talked about how theodicy would be good if only the suffering was divided evenly between everyone (Lewis 96). Then Lewis explains that his theodicy is about the
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directed at the abandonment of God‚ and it can only be stopped when the Jews recover their true faith in God. The final Jewish apocalypse author who attempts to create a theodicy for the Jewish people is the author of Daniel 8 and 9. In Daniel 8‚ Daniel has a vision of a battling goat and ram. The ram by the river represents the Persian Empire‚ while the goat in the west with one horn represents the Greek Empire. The two empires battle‚ and the goat becomes the victor. Then‚ from the single horn
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Augustinian Theodicy (25) A Philosophical theodicy demonstrates that God‚ being omnipotent‚ omniscient and omnibenevolent‚ has good reasons for occasionally allowing the continued existence of evil and suffering. It also demonstrates that the existence of evil and suffering provides greater benefits than the benefits of removing evil . St Augustine‚ 354 – 430 AD‚ based his arguments on the Bible; especially the accounts of the Creation and the Fall in Genesis. His influential theodicy rests upon
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