PPT-THEODICY: WHY GOD ALLOWS EVIL

Robby Lashua DSCC Oasis Feb 9 th 2014 HUMAN EVIL The Soviet Union 19171989 20000000 to 26000000 were killed for political reasons Nazi Germany 10005 Nazi Concentraion Camps identified. Allows us to do some computations in database and extract reduced data for further manipulation Relational Databases brPage 2br What do statisticians need to know about databases Understand the relevance of databases Have familiarity with the basic Christians in Science Student Conference 2014. Earthquakes and Evil. The problem with theodicy. Before…. Lepsy. Fault, Kazakhstan. … and after. Lepsy. Fault, Kazakhstan. http://www.googleearth.com. Robby Lashua. DSCC Oasis. Feb. 23. rd. , 2014. FREE WILL. Augustine . 354-430 A.D.. “And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of our doing ill.”. Free will?. Determinism. TEXT: Revelation 20:11-15. THEME: God’s justice requires an eternal response to sin and rejection.. We do not really want fairness or justice when a transgression applies to us- we want grace.. In our effort to understand the Problem of Evil we must start with the reality that sin and evil starts with us- not God. God is only acting on his justice and holiness. Regina – “The Evil Queen” . Anastasia – “The Red Queen” . Name a fairytale where there is not a motherly figure who is depicted as cruel and hateful towards society. In these stories, the heroes vanquish the the “villains.” But are these so called villains really evil? Could they just be misunderstood, misguided characters? The acclaimed television show, . View. “And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”. Hebrews 4:13. God Saw.... “His Creation Was Very Good”. Edexcel AS -LEVEL. Evil. Evil: “physical pain, mental suffering and moral wickedness”(John Hick, . Philosophy and Religion). Four types of evil :. Natural - malfunctioning of the natural world (John Hick). The problem of evil. Why do bad things happen?. God is punishing us for things we have done wrong.. We could not be as. kind or brave if there were no suffering or danger in the world.. God is testing our faith.. part 3. Finding Meaning in Suffering. Parasitism and Theodicy. Two kinds of evil. Moral Evil. Natural Evil. Even more. limitations. Consequences:. Painful childbirth. Thorns & thistles. Cursed ground. Job. Theodicy. A literary attempt to reconcile beliefs about divine goodness with the prevalence of evil. The . satan. Original Hebrew texts use the article “the” before . satan. Later translations use an upper case “S” as if it is a name of a specific entity. Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. The problem of evil. If God is supremely good, then he has the desire to eliminate evil. . If God is omnipotent, then he is able to eliminate evil. . . brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.. Luke 6:45 (NKJV). James 3:1-12. . affirms . just how powerful the human tongue can be in either doing good or evil. . Mike Riddle. www.CreationTraining.org. GOOD. EVIL. versus. DEFENDING THE FAITH. The Problem of Evil. “The problem of evil is one of the most crucial protests raised by unbelievers against the fact of God.”. Name the scholar – write a sentence summary. Which scholars are missing?. Scholars . Plantinga. – FW is essential for humans. Kierkegaard – King and peasant girl analogy. Augustine – God made the world perfectly and it was corrupted by the Fall.