RE104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Religious Text, Old Testament, Theodicy
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Good is meaningless unless we have something to show that it is good. Evil in western theory is a problem. Sacred text of the hebrew bible (the old testament) God is good and god is all powerful or omnipotent. God is purely good, god can do anything. The story of adam and eve (god created them good) and the garden of eden. God (cid:272)reates the te(cid:373)ptatio(cid:374) to (cid:373)ake the (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e of free (cid:449)ill to (cid:272)hoose to follo(cid:449) god"s will. Make the choice of whether they are going to follow good. Free (cid:449)ill to follo(cid:449) god"s (cid:449)ill or to diso(cid:271)ey. As human beings, we need to make the right choices or we will go down the path of evil. E(cid:374)tity (cid:272)alled sata(cid:374) is part of god"s (cid:272)ou(cid:374)(cid:272)il. God is all powerful but still has a bunch of entities that help him do his stuff. Sata(cid:374)"s role i(cid:374) the (cid:271)ook of job is to tempt job.
