FEEDBACK Theist Upbringing They are illdying Near death
FEEDBACK: Theist • Upbringing • They are ill/dying • Near death experience • Miracle • Media influence • Guilty • Retribution • Guidance • Hope • To give life meaning Atheist • No proof either way • Good arguments for and against • For every good thing that happens something bad happens too. • They don’t care either way • Upbringing • Death of a loved one • Evil in the world • No proof • Media influence • Bad life • Peer pressure • Not cool • Science • Rebellion
Look at the pictures on the sheet in front of you. What would the title of the sheet be, and why?
Key words Write your own definition of the following words in your book. Now correct your definitions with green pen if they are different! Evil Anything wrong or bad; an act or force that causes suffering or harm. Suffering To feel pain; to be hurt or harmed in some way.
OBJECTIVE: To use case studies to define the different types of evil and to understand the problem this causes for theists.
OUTCOMES… Grade C – Will be able to explain the difference between moral and natural evil using examples. Grade B - Will be able to explain how God must have certain characteristics in order to logically be God. Grade A – Will be able to explain how the existence of evil causes a problem for theists. Your GOALS for the end of this lesson are…
There are TWO types of Evil… MORAL NATURAL Write a definition of each in your book
Copy the following table into your books
MORAL EVIL… This is EVIL and SUFFERING caused by human beings and the choices we make. This type of EVIL can be prevented or stopped. EXAMPLES: Think of many examples as you can in 2 minutes and put them in your table.
NATURAL EVIL… This type of EVIL and SUFFERING is caused by nature and natural disasters. This type of EVIL cannot be prevented and very rarely stopped. EXAMPLES: Think of many examples as you can in 2 minutes and put them in your table.
Are there any examples that you can think of that may fall into both the moral and natural EVIL categories?
OUTCOMES… Grade C – Will be able to explain the difference between moral and natural evil using examples. Grade B - Will be able to explain how God must have certain characteristics in order to logically be God. Grade A – Will be able to explain how the existence of evil causes a problem for theists. Your GOALS for the end of this lesson are…
Christian beliefs about God… The bottom line is…. why should God care about the suffering that goes on in the world? To understand why evil and suffering is such a deal breaker to many people, you have to understand what God has to be in order, logically, to be God! Look at the pictures on the next slide. They are clues about what religious people believe God is like. Can you work out the three Christian beliefs about God…. ?
Three Christian beliefs about God
Write down the definitions and the cheats Key words with ‘easy cheats’ Omniscient – all knowing (scientists think they know everything) Omnipotent – all powerful Omni benevolent – all good / all loving (‘love’ backwards)
OUTCOMES… Grade C – Will be able to explain the difference between moral and natural evil using examples. Grade B - Will be able to explain how God must have certain characteristics in order to logically be God. Grade A – Will be able to explain how the existence of evil causes a problem for theists. Your GOALS for the end of this lesson are…
Suffering raises lots of questions. . . Who’s fault is it? Why did this happen? Could it have been prevented? These many people tomay question existence Many Can you question think of alead question a person raise the if the witnessof or God. experience ATHEISTS believe that some evil and suffering proves that God cannot exist. kind of suffering?
TASK… Fill in p 9 of your booklet – ‘Evil and Suffering- The problem for THEISTS’ by completing the unfinished sentences in some of the boxes. What problem?
God is believed to be OMNI-BENEVOLENT, OMNIPOTENT and OMNISCIENT. If God is OMNIBENEVOLENT he would. . . LOVE us and not want us to feel pain through evil and suffering. If God is OMNISCIENT he would. . . KNOW that people were suffering in the world. Therefore God and Evil. . . CANNOT EXIST AT THE SAME TIME Evil and Suffering DOES exists! Therefore God. . . CANNOT EXIST If God is OMNIPOTENT he would. . . BE ABLE to remove or prevent evil and suffering.
Exam practice Complete page 8 of your REVISION WORKBOOK Swap with a partner and mark each others work in GREEN PEN The type of question (a, b, c, d) and the marks for each question (2, 4, 8, 6) are in brackets at the side. Please comment – giving a POSITIVE and a TARGET
OUTCOMES… Grade C – Will be able to explain the difference between moral and natural evil using examples. Grade B - Will be able to explain how God must have certain characteristics in order to logically be God. Grade A – Will be able to explain how the existence of evil causes a problem for theists. Your GOALS for the end of this lesson are…
• Imagine you are having a conversation with a THEIST. . . • Take one of the questions that Homer asks on the next slide. • What answers do you think a THEIST would give? Try to come up with a possible answer to at least ONE of Homer’s questions.
God gave people FREEIf God is OMNIWILL , the ability to BENEVOLENT choose why between right does he let innocent and wrong. Sometimes people suffer? people make the wrong choice! If God created the a Suffering is a sometimes world, why did he God PUNISHMENT from for those whofull have create a world of committed sin. Sometimes evil and suffering? it is simply a TEST of faith. Sometimes people How can you Evil believe in are influenced the God that allowsby evil DEVIL, but sometimes and suffering to evil and suffering is all happen? part of Gods great PLAN.
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