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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
Physical pain or mental and emotional distress.
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Pain or distress experienced physically or mentally.
Revise: Evil and SufferingSuffering means physical pain or mental distress. It can result from deliberate wrongdoing, but it can also happen without anyone choosing to cause harm. This distinction matters when considering whether suffering challenges belief in God.
Paper 1
Revise: Good, Evil and Suffering in ChristianityYet the world contains cruelty, illness, disasters and suffering. The philosophical problem is how these realities can fit together.
The experience of physical pain or mental distress.
The experience of physical pain or mental and emotional distress.
Explain the conflict between suffering and God's supposed qualities; listing examples of suffering alone does not explain the argument.
For ‘Can it ever be good to cause suffering?’, weigh arguments on both sides and explain the conditions behind your conclusion.
Do not confuse good coming from suffering with permission to make someone suffer.
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