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