Good and Evil Flashcards
(41 cards)
What is a conscience?
An inner voice letting people know right from wrong?
What is the Devil?
The tempter, a force for evil.
What is the Fall?
The Biblical story in which Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating forbidden fruit.
What is Moral Evil?
Evil and suffering caused by human choice to do wrong.
What is Natural Evil?
Suffering that happens because of the natural world and not because of human fault.
What does omnibenevolent mean?
All- loving
What does omnipotent mean?
All powerful
What does omniscient mean?
All knowing
What is the Original Sin?
The sin that people are born with, inherited from the sin of Adam and Eve.
What is a sin?
Something morally wrong which goes against the teachings of God.
What do Christians believe about God’s omnibenevolence?
- God is perfectly good and everything He created was good to as an extension of His goodness.
- God gives people moral laws so that they know how to be good and please Him.
- God loved the world so much that He sent Jesus who died upon the cross to save humanity from its sins.
What is redemption?
The making up for something bad that has been done.
What does the Old Testament of the Bible teach about the Devil?
In the book of Job, the Devil tries to tempt a good man called Job away from God by sending him all kinds of suffering in the hope that Job would turn away from God and lose his faith.
What is meant when Christians say the Devil is a fallen angel?
That the Devil was once an angel called Lucifer who rebelled against God and was kicked out of Heaven as his punishment.
What does the New Testament of the Bible teach about the Devil?
The Devil tries to tempt Jesus by trying to convince Jesus to use his power as God the Son in a way that is not for the good.
By what other names is the Devil known?
Stan, the Tempter, the Accuser, Lucifer.
How is the Devil depicted in art?
Often he is shown as similar to a man with wings, horns, hooves, a pitched fork and a tail. He is often painted red to show that people are more likely to do wrong if they are in the grip of strong emotions such as anger or passion. He can be shown with tongues of fire to represent the fires of Hell.
What do Christians who think the Devil is a supernatural being believe?
That the Devil is a supernatural being who can make plans, do deliberate acts of wrong and who aims to overthrow God.
They are more likely to be Fundamentalist Christians.
What do some Christians who think the Devil isn’t a supernatural being believe?
That the Devil is a poetic way to talk about how people struggle to choose the right thing to do. They believe that no power can rival God’s and the devil is how people talk about sin and the absence of God.
What happens in the story known as the Fall?
God gave Adam and Eve an earthly paradise to live in called the Garden of Eden.
They could do whatever they pleased as long as they didn’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
A snake tempted Eve to eat the fruit, who in turn, tempted Adam.
Adam and Eve suddenly felt shame with their bodies and covered them with clothes.
God saw what they had done and punished them by making Adam toil and Eve suffer through childbirth.
“And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;…”
“…but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it, you will surely die.” (Genesis 2:16- 17)
What do some Christians believe about the snake in the Garden of Eden?
It was the Devil in disguise, tempting Adam and Eve to do the wrong thing.
“You will surely not die,” the serpent said to the woman…”
“…For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4)
What was the difference about the place of humanity before the Fall compared with after the Fall?
Before the Fall, humans were in a state of grace; they had a perfect relationship with God.
After the Fall, humans had fallen from grace as they had done wrong and challenged God’s authority.
