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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
Suffering caused by natural events or processes, such as earthquakes or disease, rather than deliberate human wrongdoing.
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Revise: Nature of GodNatural evil involves suffering from natural events or processes, such as earthquakes and disease.
Suffering caused by natural events or processes rather than deliberate human wrongdoing, such as earthquakes or disease.
Paper 1
Suffering arising from natural causes, such as earthquakes or disease, rather than from a person's wrongdoing.
Revise: Good, Evil and Suffering in ChristianityNatural evil is suffering arising from natural causes, such as earthquakes or disease. Suffering itself means physical pain or mental and emotional distress. Someone can suffer without having done anything wrong.
Suffering caused by natural processes rather than human wrongdoing, such as earthquakes or disease.
In an evaluation of suffering, weigh Christian responses against objections, including natural evil and the suffering of innocent people, then reach a justified conclusion.
Test an explanation against both moral and natural evil. Human choices explain violence more directly than earthquakes.
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