Good and Evil Key Terms

Frage	Antworten
Omnipotent	all powerful
Omniscient	All knowing/ all seeing
Omnipresent	is everywhere
Omnibenevolent	All caring/ all loving
Free will	The ability to make moral choices (given to humans by God according to Christians)
The fall	The name given to the account of Adam and Eve's sin and its consequences (Genesis 2-3)
Original Sin	The mistake (sin) made by Adam and Eve that first bring evil and suffering into Creation
Redemption	The forgiveness of sin offered to all humans by Jesus/ the promise of reconcilliation with God
Natural Evil	Suffering resulting from natural events (e.g tsunamis, earthquakes, e.t.c)
Moral Evil	Suffering resulting from humans actions (e.g bullying, murder)
Theodicy	Religious attempts to answer or explain the problem of evil
Suffering	The experience of pain and distress (physical- e.g broken ankle or psychological- e.g bereavement)
Conscience	The 'internal' voice helping us decide between right and wrong/ 'God given' according to Christians/ the source of our feeling guilt
Humanism	The belief that humans, not god, determine what is right and wrong (a secular-non religious-view)
Good	What is morally right/ which enables humans to flourish in accordance with god's will/what helps outhers
Evil	What is morally wrong/ what causes suffering/ what prevents flourishing in accordance with with god's will
The Devil (Satan)	Symbol of evil in the Christian tradition/ fallen angel (Lucifer)/ enemy of God

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