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| responds to logical problem of evil, offers no account but seeks to show that athiests have failed in saying because there's no evil theres no God |
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| emotional problem of evil |
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| hurting in the face of first hand experience of pain and suffering, difficulty in beliving in God's goodness and power in light of first hand experience of pain and suffering |
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| a problem presented in terms that are widely shared by Christian and non-Christians alike |
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| if libertarian freedom exists, its not possible for god and evil to coexist |
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| intellectual problem of evil |
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| given that evil exists, belief in an all powerful wholly good God is irrational - logically impossible for such a God to exist |
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| problem presented in terms to which the Christian is commited, a problem internal to Christian belief |
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| logical version of the problem of evil |
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| given that evil exists, belief in an all powerful wholly good God is irrational - logically impossible for such a God to exist |
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| pain and suffering that is the result of human actions |
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| pain and suffering that is not the result of human actions |
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| probabilistic version of the problem of evil |
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| existence of evil constitutes evidence against the existence of an all powerfull wholly good God - the existence of such a God is highly unlikely |
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| aims to provide an account of why God actually permits evil in the world |
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| God does not acquire his knowledge of the world by anything like perception |
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| something is contingent if and only if it could have been otherwise - contingent if and only if there IS a possible world in which it could have been otherwise |
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| counterfactual proposition |
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| conditional proposition in the subjunctive mood |
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| view that everything that happens does so necessarily therefore we can't do anything other than what we shall do |
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| knowledge of events that will occur |
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| God has foreknowledge of everything that will happen |
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| future contingent proposition |
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| sentence that expressed a proposition about some even that doesn't necessarily have to occur in the future |
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| knowledge of everything that would happen in any appropriately specified set of circumstances |
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| God possesses knowledge of everything that could happen |
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| something is necessart if and only if it could not have been otherwise - something is necessary if and only if thre is no possible world in which it would have been otherwise |
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| for any person S, S is omniscient if and only if S knows every true proposition and believes no untrue proposition |
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| construes divine knowledge on the analogy of sense perception |
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| in order to have freedom necessary for responsible action is not compatible w/ determinism, real freedom requires control over ones action and will |
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| persons are agents and in free acts they either cause their acts for the sake of reasons |
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| if one freely does A, they could have refrained from doing A or they could have done or willed to have done B without any conditions whatever being different |
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| cases where appropriate mental states do in fact cause an event to take place but by accident |
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| an act is free if and only if it is under the agents own control and it is under his own control if and only if the act was appropriately caused by the right mental states existingin the agent prior to the act |
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| if determinism is true, then every human action is causually necessitated by events that obtained prior to the action |
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| necessary condition of this act being a free one is that one must be in control of the act itself |
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| view that for every event that happens there are conditions such that, given them, nothing else could have happened |
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| view that one is free to choose what one will believe |
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| if one has the ability to exert his power to do A, one also has the ability to refrain from exerting his power to do A |
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| that by means of which an effect is produced |
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| (state state) the only kind of entities that can be put into the casual relation are events |
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| that for the sake of which an effect is produced |
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| first and second order desires |
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| the actual desire/the action or desire about the desire |
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| claism that the freedom necessary for responsible action is not compatible with determinism, real freedom requires a type of control over ones actions and will |
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| requires that an agent have a personal reason for acting before the act counts as a free one |
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| for those who haven't heard of Christ, salcation can be obtained through a realization in nature of God |
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| not seperation from God but annihalation of the damned |
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| salvation is acheived through and believ in Christs life and death |
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| seeing God in the world around us |
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| salvation through belief in works but not faith |
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| natural consequence model of hell |
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| hell is the punishment for refusing God, not other sins |
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| only some will receive salvation |
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| salvation is achieved in multiple ways and religions |
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| salvation only available through Christ |
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| retributive model of hell |
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| hell is proportionate to the crime, put in hell for the little things and remain for cursing him |
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| soteriological problem of evil |
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| existence of an all powerful all loving God is logically inconsistence with the fact that some people never hear the gospel and are therefore lost |
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| everyone will receive salvation |
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