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    writing on John Hick’s piece entitled There Is a Reason Why God Allows Evil. In the selection Hick explains a theodicy‚ a justification of God’s goodness because of evil‚ the soul-making view of life in this defense of God’s way in the face of evil. The dilemma of the problem of evil is‚ if God is perfectly loving he must wish to abolish evil. If evil exists then God cannot be all perfectly loving. Hick’s theodicy‚ the soul-making view‚ states that God intentionally placed this evils on earth so

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    John Hick and Pluralism

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    John Hick and Pluralism John Hick was born in 1922 in England to a middle class family. He developed an interest in philosophy and religion in his teens‚ being encouraged by his uncle‚ who was an author and teacher at Manchester University. Hick initially pursued a law degree at Hull University‚ but converted to Evangelical Christianity from the fundamentalist Christian beliefs with which he was raised‚ and decided to change his career and enrolled at the University of Edinburgh in 1941.

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    The Existence of God and Evil The problem of evil has been around since the beginning. How could God allow such suffering of his “chosen people”? God is supposedly all loving (omni-benevolent) and all powerful (omnipotent) and yet He allows His creations to live in a world of danger and pain. Two philosophers this class has discussed pertaining to this problem is B.C. Johnson and John Hick. Johnson provides the theists’ defense of God and he argues them. These include free will‚ moral urgency‚

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    The Evil in God

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    The Evil in Good “The archetype is a symbolic formula which always begins to function when there are no conscious ideas present‚ or when conscious ideas are inhibited for internal or external reasons.” In other words‚ an archetype is the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are copies or representations. A Jungian archetype is a thought pattern that finds worldwide parallels. We have unconsciously molded specific traits to specific characters and turned them into “archetypes”

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    Evil or God

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    MANUEL FIGUEROA 2/14/13 WHY IS THE TOPIC IMPORTANT TO THE SOCIETY: Gravity and friction are two forces that work together to allow life as we know it on earth. They are balanced forces. There is no movement without first overcoming friction‚ which is why a heavier object falls faster due to gravity than a lighter object. A heavy object is not resisted by air friction‚ while a very light object is (which causes

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    Where is God in the midst of the Holocaust‚ the war in Africa involving dictator Joseph Kony‚ or even events such as Jim Jones and the People’s Temple? The question comes to‚ where be God during these awful catastrophes? Why doesn’t God intervene and stop the evil before it happens? John K. Roth expresses his opinion on God and Evil in the book Encountering Evil. Roth explains God in the midst of evil by a Theodicy of Protest‚ which he mentions can also be expressed as an anti-theodicy. Roth easily

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    Leibniz‚ Plantinga and Hick try to answer the question of the existence of evil in the world with their differing yet equally intellectual theodicy’s. Leibniz attacks the problem of evil with the concept of our world being the best possible world that God could create. Plantinga explains the hardships in the world with a free will theodicy‚ in which the world exists in its manner due to the free will of humanity. I argue that while each theodicy brings up a pertinent view to assess the issue‚ none

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    Augustine God Is Evil

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    Christianity‚ God is all good‚ omnipotent‚ omnipresent‚ and omniscient. So‚ why did this good God let there be evil (Augustine 121)? It starts with free will. God gave humans free will to love Him and to do good. According to the Adam and Eve story‚ Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit so that they could be like God. They were prideful and acted in a way that did not live up to their full potential for good and thus‚ there was evil. Now‚ that is not to say that Adam and Eve are the source of evil‚ but

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    God vs. Evil

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    Johnson PHL 204 5/21/12 God vs. Evil In the beginning God created‚ and it was good. The Jewish‚ Christian‚ and Islamic Creation story all begin with the light‚ the Word‚ and God’s opinion of it all being “good”. Evil is not introduced into the story until Genesis 3 when Eve and Adam took the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and ate. Their eyes were opened to the nakedness of each other and to the understanding of what is good and what is bad. This was not something God had intended‚ yet it was

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    Humaier is discussing whether or not God created evil. He deals with Scripture and other peoples arguments on this subject. Humaier begins his article by sharing the story of Satan tempting Jesus. He follows the story with a short presentation of the Gospel. He then moves to Scripture dealing with human beings. The first passage he deals with is Ecclesiastes chapter 15. Humans were created to live in paradise‚ yet through fee will‚ they decided not to obey the commandments set before them which

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