Statistics for Hick's soul making theodicy

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which blames the existence of evil and suffering on?adam and eve
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as God's salvation is for?all
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this created what between humans and God?distance
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of humans, as seen in?jesus
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and subsequently, every human is born with?original sin
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for Hick, the world is a place of?soul making
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for Hick, hell is an?abhorrent doctrine
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Hick agrees with the idea that humans could not have been created to always freely choose good. who supported this view?alvin plantinga
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humans must exist at what from God?an epistemic distance
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challenge to hicks theodicy- it does not justify whos suffering?animals
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his foundation for his theodicy was the what was no longer credible?Augustinian theodicy
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if humans were moral robots, their response to God would not be?authentic
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Hick calls the image?bios
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who taught at ?Birmingham uni
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development as humans can only come from the freedom to?chose between good and bad
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eventually, humans can become?christ like
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such as? (1)compassion
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this is called the?counterfactual hypothesis
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(3)courage
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their pain also is necessary as it warns them of?danger
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God is justified in not removing it as it is ?deserved
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if one of God's creations deviates from it's?design
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and ?develop them
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humans cannot be responsible for all suffering, as?disease
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(2)empathy
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Hick responds that this is necessary to maintain the ?epistemic distance
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and Christians believe in a ?fair God
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then the original creation must be ?flawed
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if people knew for definite that God existed, they would lose their ?freedom
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the human race will mature, and respond to its creator in?freedom and love
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which means Hick's theodicy encompasses the?fwd
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such as ?genocide
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as they would only ever do what they thought?god would want
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parenting is teaching your child to make?good judgements
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and all will enter?heaven
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god loves us through suffering as we develop into?his image
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Augustine believed evil and suffering was ?humanities fault
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was part of the world before?humans arrived
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genesis 1.29 says god wants to create humanity in hisimage and likeness
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we are designed to be?imperfect
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created by ?John Hick
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this means a distance of?knowledge
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Hick responds that if we remove the worst, the next worse would just become the worst. The more evil we remove, what do humans increasingly become?less free
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just as God cannot make us?love him
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no parent can force their child to?love them
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hick responds that mystery is again required to?maintain epistemic distance
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who said god did not create the world perfectly, and adam and eve were like children who needed to?mature
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the world must contain?moral and natural evil
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so we can?morally develop
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this process can extend beyond our?mortal lifetimes
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we are created by God biologically, but are developed by?our choices
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Hick equates God's love for humanity to a?parents love for their child
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which means the ?perfect personal life
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and made many?philosophical contributions
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challenge- there is evil in the world that is?pointless
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so all evil (natural and moral) is our?punishment
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whereas some children never respond to their parents, the whole human race will?respond freely to god
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all will be ?saved
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as genesis is a mythological account, not?scientific
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so we can develop?second order virtues
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whereas in Augustine's theodicy, the world is a place of ?soul deciding
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life as it is gives the the ?stimulus for development
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Hick prefers the ideas of ?st irenaeus
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and adam and eve brought?suffering into the world
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so is necessary for?survival
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take away the stimulus (suffering), and you also?take away the development
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which can only be overcome by accepting?teachings of christ
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because of their disobedience, and their punishment known as ?the fall
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punishing the entire human race is ?unjust
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Hick dismisses Augustine's idea's as?utterly unacceptable
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we need evil to develop as human beings, and our suffering makes us?virtuous
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e.g., the fawn example from?william rowe
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challenge - hick's theodicy does not justify the?worst evil
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if love is forced, it is?worthless
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and the likeness?zoe
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