Chapter 5 Extensive material on suffering

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

Evil & Suffering

A3 tto

2023-2024

Lesson objectives

I will...

• name reasons of various types of suffering and link the responses to them
• reflect different views of philosophers on suffering
• compare views and connect the link between the (non)-existence of God and suffering; the theodicy

Chapter 5 What is suffering?

Chapter 5

- page 74: The bigger picture

   - What?

   - How?

   - Why?

What is suffering?

Does suffering have a purpose?

00:37

Why is Nietzsche different from Socrates?

01:35

According to Nietzsche which part of humans is made to suffer?

03:54

Nietzsche on suffering in 3 words

Ultimate questions

Important questions that religion/views of life try to answer.

Note: views of life!!!

Free will

The idea that human being have been created with the choice to do either good or evil

Original sin

Original sin, also described as ancestral sin, is a Christian view of the nature of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man. (Adam & Eve)

sin =

"to miss the mark." 

Theodicee

Answers to the existence of suffering.
Which one makes most sense?

Suffering is God's test to see wether people trust that he cares for them.

Suffering Suffering challenges people and leads them to have a greater understanding of God

Suffering allows people a chance to show they care for those who are suffering.

Suffering is nog God's fault, it is humankind's.

Suffering is caused by evil or the devil and is not God's fault

§5.3 Does suffering prove that there is no God? 

In pairs

1. search the following Bible verses 
2. Genesis 2:16-17
3. Romans 8:22
4. What messages/concepts are in these verses?
5. Time: 5 minutes

§5.3 Does suffering prove that there is no God? 

Genesis 2:16-17

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."

§5.3 Does suffering prove that there is no God? 

Romans 8:22

22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Test week

To learn:

• Chapter 5
• Augustine's theodicy (in Teams)
• this lesson in Lessonup