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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
The challenge of explaining how evil and suffering can exist if God is all-powerful and all-loving.
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The challenge of explaining why evil and suffering exist if God is all-powerful, all-loving and just.
Revise: Nature of GodThe problem of evil and suffering asks how these experiences can be reconciled with God's nature. If God is loving, surely he would want to prevent suffering. If God is omnipotent, surely he could prevent it.
For the problem of evil, explain both the challenge and a Christian response, then consider whether that response answers the challenge.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
The challenge of explaining evil and suffering alongside belief in a God who is all-powerful, all-knowing and perfectly good.
Revise: Good, Evil and Suffering in JudaismTogether, these beliefs create the problem of evil: if God knows about suffering, can prevent it and is good, why does suffering continue? Jewish reflection also asks why suffering seems unfairly distributed: why do righteous people suffer while wicked people sometimes prosper?
The challenge of explaining how evil and suffering can exist if God is both all-powerful and all-loving.