CWV-101 Topic 6 Study Guide Already Passed

CWV-101 Topic 6 Study Guide Already Passed Define the problem of evil from the textbook and the PowerPoint. ✔✔The philosophical and theological "problem" expressed in the question below: -If God is a good and loving ...

CWV-101 Topic 6 Study Guide Already Passed Define the problem of evil from the textbook and the PowerPoint. ✔✔The philosophical and theological "problem" expressed in the question below: -If God is a good and loving God who is omnipotent, why is there evil in the world? -God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good -Such a God would have no place for evil -Such a God would be able to destroy evil -Therefore, evil should not exist with God -Yet evil does exist within this universe Also concerns the question of cause: -If God is a good and loving God who is omnipotent and sovereign, why is there evil in the world? -God is sovereign - in control of/decreeing all events -God is good - no evil in his character or being -Yet evil exists and originated as events within God's sovereignty - he "allowed" evil in some sense -Therefore, God is to blame for evil -Yet God is not blamed for evil How does the textbook define empiricism? ✔✔An epistemological theory that knowledge comes through only sensory experience From the PowerPoint, what two commandments did Jesus say are the greatest? How does a Christian ethics view transformation? ✔✔ From the textbook, describe the potential problems associated with relative truth and with relative ethics. ✔✔ According to the textbook and PowerPoint presentations, define absolute truth and absolute morality? ✔✔Absolute Truth: Unalterable facts that are true at all times for all persons regardless of context. Absolute Morality: An objective standard by which certain actions may be judged right or wrong, regardless of the context of the act, the consequences of the act, or the intentions behind it. Briefly define General and Special Revelation. ✔✔General Revelation: Refers to the means God has used to reveal himself universally to humanity through nature, history, science, and reasoning. Special Revelation: Refers to the means God has used to reveal himself specifically to people through the Bible, the person of Jesus Christ, and to individuals as they seek him in prayer and devotion. According to chapter 9 in the textbook and Job 1-2 and 38-40, does Job ever find out why he suffered? What does the story of Job teach, according to the textbook? ✔✔ Read the story of the raising of Lazarus in John 11. What can we learn about Jesus and death from this account of the event? How does this passage speak to the Christian worldview's hope of ending suffering? ✔✔ According to the textbook and PowerPoint presentations, define relative truth and relative morality? ✔✔Relative Truth: The belief that truth is relative to a certain perception; therefore, in this view, truth is derived only within one's frame of reference. Relative Morality: The view that all morality, right and wrong, is individually or culturally created. This view believes there is no universal or objective right and wrong. Instead, individuals or cultures create their own morals, which are not considered better or worse than any other. 10. Read the section on Theodicy in chapter 9 of the textbook. a. Define theodicy. b. What are four arguments of theodicy covered in the PowerPoint presentation? ✔✔a. The Christian defense of God's infinite goodness and power despite the presence of evil and suffering. b. Original Sin Theodicy: All evil that we see in creation stems from the effects of original sin, which is a corruption of God's good creation. (Sin causes evil not God) Free Will Theodicy: For the sake of love, God chooses to allow evil within creation in order to provide human beings with an actual free will to choose good or evil (Without ability to choose evil, human beings would not have free will and could not love.) Irenaean Theodicy: God has allowed evil to be in the world as a moral test for humanity, causing people to become more like God morally and spiritually. (Suffering brings growth) Eternity Theodicy: Looks at the reality of eternal life as being joyful beyond any suffering a person would experience in life.