Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Evil and Suffering
- natural suffering
- Suffering caused by nature, e.g because of earthquakes, volcanoes, floods etc
- Man-made suffering
- Suffering caused by the actions of humans, e.g through war, pollution, crime etc
- Free Will
- Having the ability to choose or determine one's own actions.
- Karma
- The law of cause and effect. This is a Buddhist / Hindu idea.
- Job
- Story from the old testament suggesting that suffering is a test from God.
- The Fall
- When Adam and Eve disobeyed God and were cast out of the garden of Eden.
- Evil
- The opposite of good. A force or the personification of a negative power that is seen by many
traditions as destructive and against God.
- Personal being (nature of evil)
- The ideas that evil is an evil spirit or a devil rather than an impersonal force.
- Psychological phenomenon
- an idea about the nature of evil that it is something arising from the mind of a person.
- Theodicy
- An attempt to answer the question of why God permits suffering in the world.
- Nature of evil
- What evil is like, whether a personal being, a psychological phenomenon or an impersonal force.