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God could have created a world without the possibility of evil, but he willed to create the world in a "state of journeying" to its consummation (the time when evil will no longer exist). [75] God could have created beings without the possibility of committing sin, but he willed to create free beings, e.g., beings that have free-will and must ...
Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann observes that "theodicy is a constant concern of the entire Bible" [8] [9] and he describes theodicy, from the biblical perspective, as a subject that "concerns the question of God's goodness and power in a world that is manifestly marked by disorder and evil." [10] The Bible evokes a need for a theodicy by ...
The logical form of the argument tries to show a logical impossibility in the coexistence of a god and evil, [2] [10] while the evidential form tries to show that given the evil in the world, it is improbable that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and a wholly good god. [3] Concerning the evidential problem, many theodicies have been proposed ...
Origen opposed the Valentinian view that suffering in the world is beyond God's grasp, and the devil is an independent actor. Therefore, the devil is only able to pursue evil as long as God allows. Evil has no ontological reality, but is defined by deficits or a lack of existence, in Origen's cosmology. Therefore, the devil is considered most ...
[10] Some have responded to the idea of temptation by teaching or practicing asceticism; (see also ascetical theology and mortification of the flesh). The question of whether the world and the flesh are inherently bad and what the individual's proper relationship to them ought to be has long been debated in many philosophical and spiritual ...
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Sermon 125: On Living without God - Ephesians 2:12, Rotherham, 6 July 1790 Sermon 126: On the Danger of Increasing Riches - Psalm 62:10 , Bristol , 21 September 1790 Sermon 127: Trouble and Rest of Good Men - Job 3:17, preached at St. Mary's in Oxford on Sunday, 21 September 1735 and published at the request of several of the hearers [ 10 ]
Natural evil (also non-moral or surd evil) is a term generally used in discussions of the problem of evil and theodicy that refers to states of affairs which, considered in themselves, are those that are part of the natural world, and so are independent of the intervention of a human agent.