PHIL 1600 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Theodicy, Brain Death, Victims Family
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God"s true purpose: not: safety and contentment. Rather: moral and spiritual goodness: not: natural goodness . Rather: goodness achieved through a risky process of character building. Relative to this purpose : our world makes sense, imagine a world without suffering and without risk. In each case, there is a moral virtue that the evil thing is a necessary condition of the possibility of developing the virtue: the goal= finite likeness of god. What hick is saying: that for soul making purposes the best overall policy is one that allows suffering. Shit happens : sometimes there is no reason for bad things that happens. Moral and spiritual goodness achieved through free responses to challenges difficulties and suffering. Universal salvation: soul making continues in the next life until everyone is transformed into the finite likeness of god and brought into the kingdom of god, two immediately obvious problems.
