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Worksheets1.2 Good & Evil Homework
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is another name for the 'problem of evil'
The inconsistent theodicy
The inconsistent pentagon
The inconsistent triad
The consistent triad
Who argues that without free will we would be merely 'good robots'
St Augustine
John Hick
St Thomas Aquinas
Peter Singer
What is 'moral evil'?
Suffering caused by humans and their free will
Suffering that occurs naturally in the world
Which one of these is a place of CHRISTIAN pilgrimage?
Las Vegas
Norton
Mecca
Lourdes
Which book of wisdom in the old testament attempts to explain why bad things happen to good people?
Book of Job
Book of Ecclesiastes
Book of Proverbs
Book of Psalms
Destruction caused by a hurricane would be an example of...
Moral evil
Natural evil
Which of these is one of the five primary precepts of 'natural law'
Be nice
Preserve life
Travel
Who came up with the idea of 'natural law'
St Thomas Aquinas
St Iranaeus
John Hick
David Hume
What is our definition of 'conscience'?
The ability in all of us to choose right from wrong without being controlled by other forces
The inner feeling/knowledge we all have of the rightness or wrongness of an action
Who argues that conscience is NOT the voice of God but a 'mix of voices', from our peers, family, society etc.
Peter Singer
Richard Dawkins
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
Which old testament story describes the 'FIRST disobedience of mankind'
Story of Abraham
The Fall
Noahs Ark
Job
What do Catholics believe we are all born into a state of as a result of Adam and Eve's disobedience of God?
Original sin
God's grace
Salvation
Mortal sin
What does St Augustine describe 'evil and suffering' as?
Soul-making
A result of an imperfect world
A privation (lack of) good
God's plan
What is dualism?
The idea there is only the physical world
The idea that free will is an illusion
The idea there is a physical AND a spiritual world
What do we call 'an arguement that attempts to explain WHY God allows evil'
Theodicy
Inconsistent triad
The problem of evil
The problem of innocent suffering
Who describes the incosistent triad as the 'rock of atheism'
(The most convincing arguement against the existence of God)
J.L Mackie
G.K Chesterton
David Hume
John Hick
Somebody committing a murder would be an example of...
Moral evil
Natural evil
Who argues that 'the world is good and so is God', and that 'evil' is just a privation (lack of) good by others.
St Iranaeus
St Thomas Aquinas
St Augustine
St Catherine of Sienna
What is the term given for the distance between God and humanity that allows free choice?
Deterministic distance
Transcendental distance
Epistemic distance
What is the term for the quality of God as 'all-loving'?
Omnipotent
Omnibenevolent
Omniscient
Omnipresence
