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Give four points about logical errors regarding the theodicy including a scholars opinion. Give 1 opposing view. |
-If world was created perfect there can't have been knowledge of the difference between good and evil. -How could there be the choice to obey or disobey God since good and evil would be unknown. -Adam and Eve choose to disobey God suggests they already have knowledge of evil-could only have come from God. -FED Schleiermacher agreed with this and said a perfectly created world could not have gone wrong-evil created itself out of nothing? -Argued that evil is not origiona ally part of Gods plan so evil could have been the fault of Adam and Eve not God. |
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Give three scientific weaknesses of the theodicy and include a scholar. Also give one opposing point. |
-Augustine States that the world was made perfect by God and damaged by humans. -This contradicts evolutionary theory which says that the universe has continually been developing from an earlier state of chaos. -Darwin theorised that humans evolved through evolution and natural selection and so could not have been designed. -Argued that God is not responsible for mans choices. |
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Give four points for the moral errors of the theodicy including two points about Brian Davis. Give two opposing points. |
-Hell appears to be part of the design of the universe. -God must have already anticipated that it would go wrong and have accepted it. -Brian Davis-evil cannot be called a substance. -He calls it a gap between what there is and what there used to be. - We cannot blame God for creating evil because it's not a substance. -If we want to criticise God then we could say that he could have created more than he has. |
