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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
The difficulty of reconciling the existence of suffering with belief in a compassionate, all-powerful God.
Used by Edexcel
Specification 1.7, 1.8 · Paper 3
The challenge of explaining how evil and suffering can exist if God is all-powerful and perfectly loving.
The difficulty of reconciling the existence of suffering with belief in an all-powerful and compassionate Allah.
Use Surah 1 accurately, then explain its relevance. A quotation about mercy needs a link to the problem of suffering.
The problem of suffering challenges belief in an all-powerful, all-knowing and wholly good creator. Explain why this challenge does not apply to Buddhism in exactly the same way.
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Specification 2.7, 2.3 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
The philosophical difficulty of reconciling suffering with belief in a compassionate, all-powerful God.
Revise: Suffering and a Compassionate AllahThis is the problem of suffering. It is not simply the observation that life can be painful. It is a question about whether the suffering people experience fits with what believers say about Allah’s nature.
The challenge of explaining why suffering exists if there is an all-powerful, all-knowing and wholly good God.
