Questions tagged [good-and-evil]
morally positive or negative behaviors, desires, etc.; also for use on questions about the nature of good and/or evil
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How can the Christian faith be reconciled with the Epicurean problem of evil?
I understand that a form of this question would have been previously asked, however I think I have a slight difference with regard to a solution to this problem, with regard to God.
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What explanations do Christian theodicies offer regarding God's commanding the Israelites to slaughter the Canaanites, including their children?
Deuteronomy 20:10-18 ESV
10 “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. 11 And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are ...
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What aspects of normal human behavior have people mistaken as the work of the flesh?
In Galatians 5, Paul helps us understand the work of the flesh, such as in verse 17:
"For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for ...
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Are Christians theologically committed to believing that all evil and suffering in the world is non-gratuitous or necessary?
Arguments from evil, such as the logical problem of evil or the evidential problem of evil, aim to demonstrate that certain forms of suffering in the world are either unnecessary or gratuitous. ...
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What are Christian responses to William Rowe's formulation of the Evidential Problem of Evil?
Previously, I inquired on What are Christian responses to the Logical Problem of Evil?. Now, I would like to shift the focus to Christian responses to the Evidential Problem of Evil. For an in-depth ...
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What are Christian responses to the Logical Problem of Evil?
The following is a more succinct presentation of the Logical Problem of Evil based on the original presentation found in the introduction of the article Logical Problem of Evil | Internet Encyclopedia ...
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Why do bad things happen to the innocent?
OK, so to start, I searched this topic on the exchange and found no answers that were satisfying. I am not questioning God, I just have a hard time coming to terms with why bad things happen to the ...
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What is the name for belief when a person believes that Devil exists but is not so sure about the God part?
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got me thinking. I was an atheist gradually drifting into agnostic territory.
But once I got into my 40s, I came to the realization that the devil does exist in
many shapes and forms. ...
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How is god all good if he created evil? [duplicate]
Okay so I've heard the argument that humans are the one who let evil in the world but at one point there was only God before he stated his creation process, so there was all good. God created the laws ...
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Latter-day Saint understanding of James 1:13-15, God's omnibenevolence and God's free will?
In my previous question How do proponents of the “free-will defense” against the problem of evil explain that God can be free and immune to moral evil at the same time?, I presented the following ...
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How do Christians that believe in creatio ex nihilo answer the question of why human beings are not created with a perfect character from the outset?
This question is a spin-off of the previous discussion How do proponents of the “free-will defense” against the problem of evil explain that God can be free and immune to moral evil at the same time?.
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How do Latter-day Saints answer the question of why human beings are not created with a perfect character from the outset?
This question is a spin-off of the previous discussion How do proponents of the “free-will defense” against the problem of evil explain that God can be free and immune to moral evil at the same time?.
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What is an overview of moral theories in Christianity?
What is an overview of moral theories in Christianity? From my own research, I know of at least three:
Divine Command Theory. Wikipedia presents the following summary:
Divine command theory (also ...
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How do proponents of the “free-will defense” against the problem of evil explain that God can be free and immune to moral evil at the same time?
The free-will defense is an argument commonly attributed to Alvin Plantinga, who developed it as a response to the logical problem of evil. However, in developing this argument Plantinga unwittingly ...
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Do Christians believe that God chose to create the "best possible world" among multiple/infinite alternatives, by maximizing a "Goodness" function?
Do Christians (or at least a well-known subset of them) believe that God chose to create the "best possible world" among multiple/infinite alternatives, and therefore, that we are living in ...
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