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    In Judaism‚ Jews attempt to answer the question of why God allows sinister incidents happen to righteous people‚ also known as Theodicy. In the book of Job‚ God allows Satan to test Job to see if he would curse God if he took away his “7‚000 sheep‚3‚000 camels‚ 500 yoke of oxen‚ and 500 female donkeys;in addition to his great household” ( 1:3). This story elaborates on why this phenomenon continues to happen. The reason God allows misfortune to come upon his righteous followers is to test their

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    cultures and religions. In James C. Livingston’s novel‚ The Anatomy of the Sacred‚ the explanations of evil in the world or the theodicy is analyzed in the point of views of distinct religions. Being a Jewish woman I was most interested in the monotheistic explanation for moral evil that also incited me to seek answers for the malevolent Jewish Holocaust. “ The monotheistic theodicies that focus on God’s limitless power and sovereignty tend to place the blame for moral evil on the fact of the Fall of Adam

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    Origins in Science and Religion Letters and Science 121 T-Th 2:00-3:30‚ 2040 VLSB Spring 2013 This course explores the concepts of origins in science and religion and their cultural contexts and entanglements‚ from antiquity to the present. Popular culture tends to emphasize the conflict between science and religion on such issues‚ particularly‚ in recent times‚ with respect to the origin of life and its evolution (including human evolution). We hold that science must acknowledge history‚ both

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    (Some of the) Key Thinkers: Beliefs in Society NAME CONTRIBUTION CONCEPT Armstrong Feminist: Religion ‘not been particularly good to women…usually male affairs with women relegated to marginal positions’ Barker Making of a Moonie: most members from middle class (link to relative deprivation as appeal of sects/NRMs) Bellah Functionalist: religion in US = ‘Americanism’ + Decline in influence of religious institutions not evidence of secularisation‚ but move to individual belief/practice

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    Why Does Evil Exist

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    friends‚ and our nation. Why there are crimes? Why there are disturbing instance in the news like child-raped‚ terrorist bombing and other alarming activities? And the most important question here is‚ why evil exists? As defined by Alvin Plantinga‚ theodicy is the "answer to the question of why God permits evil". Evil is generally considered to include both moral evil‚ acts done by humans‚ and natural evil‚ which includes pain and suffering that results from natural disasters‚ diseases‚ or genetic defects

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    In Black Elk Speaks‚ Studying Religion was showed in a lot of instances in his journey in life. Black Elk went through a lot of drama happened when he made the conversion to a Catholic Church. Black Elk stood with the analogy by turning the other cheek. In the following paragraphs I’m going to talk about the ten areas that are shown in Black Elk. Sacred power has many different forms of power being shown. Sacred power can be strong‚ active‚ and aggressive‚ creating and destroying whole universes

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                Elementary to High School (1877 – 1880) Ateneo Municipal. Manila Land Surveyor (1877 – 1878) University of Santo Tomas. Manila Philosophy Cosmology‚ Theodicy‚ Metaphysics‚ History of Philosophy (1878 – 1879) Preparatory Course in Medicine (1879 – 1882) Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (1882 – 1884) Universidad Central de Madrid

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    the discursive reason as the only possible source of all real knowledge. According to Louis-Marie Morfaux‚ rationalism takes in all doctrines that attribute to human reason the capacity to know and establish the truth.” Leibniz‚ in his “Essays on Theodicy” (1710)‚ formulated in the following way:“Nothing happens without a cause or at the very least‚ a determined reason” “All that is real is rational and all that is rational is real” (Preface to Principles of the Philosophy of Right). Holding that

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    Christianity succeeds where atheism fails‚ atheism is ultimately death an exercise in futility. God’s existence enables us to live happy lives with a hope for things yet to come . These arguments‚ defenses‚ and theodicies all serve as ways for a person to understand in part‚ none by themselves offer indisputable proof of God’s existence. They do however make the existence of a necessary being‚ a first cause‚ probable. Building on this this first cause‚ the God of

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    Introduction Book of Job comes with moral and spiritual messages. The background of the spiritual message is found in Christian principles and it is important as it is not only relevant to the Christian people but it is for all other people of different religion. It has lot of universal value thus it is applicable to humanity in all. These spiritual messages when are used universally then it becomes the moral messages for humanity. Book of Job is a part described in The Holy Bible. The Bible is

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