God on Trial

God on Trial is about a group of Jews who were captured by Nazis, and sent to Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a concentration camp ran by Nazis, and is the place where most Jews went to die. This movie took place in one of the bunkers in Auschwitz, where a group of men decided to put God on Trial. They decided who would be the defendant, prosecutor, and judge, with everyone else being witnesses. They had a heated discussion, and came up with a guilty verdict, before some of them were sent off to the gas chambers. The prosecutor’s statement about god killing innocent people for the benefit of others is what may have been the deciding factor in the verdict.

Since the discovery of philosophy by the Greek civilizations man has always tried to find the cause of many fundamental problems that are connected to the reality and existence of factors that contribute to these dilemmas but still remain unknown to humanity. One of the most controversial questions philosophy tries to answer is the origin of what we consider evil, who or what is connected to the main cause of the pain and suffering that goes on throughout the world. “Evil is when one purposefully causes pain, not pain caused by fault, knowing something is morally wrong, but still proceeds in doing so. Simply by the definition of evil,

Your answer for how Christianity adequately explain the existence of good and evil, pain and suffering gave insight to the question, “God gave us free will because He wanted us to be able to choose to be in right standing and relationship with Him.” Having right-standing and relationship with Him gave us a better choice here on earth and for eternal life, which can provide an explanation of the existence of good and evil, pain and suffering. “So just as sin ruled over all us and brought us to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 5:21, NLT). However, as a Christian, it is so imperative to know and to understand that we have right-standing

Free choice- A large argument in the theological world is whether or not we have free will or if we are completely controlled by god. The argument made in the book is that suffering is an example of the fact that we still do have free will to make our own choices. There are times when we are given a choice and many time people choose the path that goes against god and because of that there is suffering. As we actively or passively choose to turn our back to god in different situations we are then forced to reap the consequence. God would not be the one to make the choice that we would turn our back to him, therefore showing that the belief in god does not forfeit our free

The problem of evil is an ancient theological problem. Evil is an immoral, malevolent behavior towards oneself, others, and nature. Unjust suffering has many causes, including natural causes like earthquakes. The key question is, “Why does God allow unjust suffering?” The reasons are due to people being sinners, a way for God to test whether one’s faith will change and the unpredictable sequence of nature.

For the monotheistic religions some believe that God created evil and suffering in our world to test our faith. Some believe that there is evil and suffering in the world to provide us a chance to become better people, to improve our souls and God will reward

Catholicism teaches that when the world was originally created by God there was no suffering, “Suffering is not part of God’s original created order,” (Genesis 1-2). Instead, suffering was introduced to the world when humans resisted against God; when Adam and Eve sinned suffering entered the world. “It is a result of Adam and Eve’s sin that ‘thorn and thistles’ entered the world,” (Genesis 3:18). At this point, God did not just remove this sin as he would then have to remove all sin after this. The reason God permitted sin to enter the world was so that each human was able to have freewill and choose God on our accord; in doing this he shows his love for us. However, because of this freewill, people choosing to go against God creates suffering.

The whole reason of evils I feel come from Adam and Eve disobeying God's orders. Evils are meant for you to overcome and get stronger based off what you went through overcoming it. Some evils are meant to teach life lessons. The evils that don’t come from those reasons are from mankind deciding to go their own way instead of following the path that God laid out for us. No I don’t believe that this additional reason will solve the problem of evil because evil can’t solve evil. The only thing that can solve the problem of evil is God and eventually he will. No one will know when that time will come but you should always make sure you are repenting of your sins and living right for

Augustine said that evil is created by us, not God, through our own free will. Our actions are decided by ourselves and the consequence of evil is ultimately caused by us. If God designed them so that they only choose good, then they would not be truly free. Without free will, we would not have a genuine choice between good and evil. There are many different beliefs concerning the cause of evil and their relevance.

At its core, the problem of evil is based on the inconsistency between the reality of what is happening in our world, and what is expected. The expectation is that our world should be exclusively good given the fact that God is the pinnacle of perfection, and God created our

This is not a perfect world suffering is an inherent part of life in this world, both for human beings and for the earth itself sometimes because of human beings. The earth groan in labor pains even now waiting for its promised redemption. In the Book of Genesis chapters 2-3 the story of the fall, as we’ve come to call it attributes at least some of the suffering of the world to the original disobedience of Adam and Eve. Romans 8:18-23 also speaks of the creation’s bondage to decay and its groaning in labor pains suffering, it seems, is part of the fabric of creation itself, though it will not always be so. But suffering is not the end of the matter. God is among mortals. He will dwell with us he will wipe every tear from our eyes. death

Why? is a common response to most suffering, pain, loss, and problem caused by evil. An important human aspect is that upon suffering humans always demand a response which perfectly answers this major problem of evil. However, one needs to understand that God chose not to give an answer to every question one may have. All this been said, Specific Evil as the Result of Specific Sins, God as the Victim of Evil, and The Life Hereafter are extremely important themes to answer not in a perfect way the problem of: Why God allows evil to exist in the world?

There is a powerful scene from the 2008 moving picture , "Deity On Trial" which lieu s the deity of the Jewish people on trial run . An tilt in this scene head whether or not God had abandoned the Israelite for a New Concordat with their oppressors. The scene takings place in an Auschwitz concentration inner circle . This scene is a very convincing, at least in my view, in demonstrating the deadly seriousness of the 'believing mind' and how easy it is for collectives of armed truster to wreak holy scourge upon their fellow humans. God-belief , as demonstrated in this scene, may buy you aureole on Tuesday , and sorrow by Saturday . What is your impression of the final argument as brand in this clip? Is it biblically accurate, and if so, does

The simple answer is that we are totally depraved sinners, and as sinners we deserve to suffer for our sins. God punishes sinners by making them suffer. In the book of Job, Job’s three friends tell Job that he must have done some terrible sin and that God sent Job trials as punishment for that sin. Though the argument of Job’s three friends was wrong, it is true that Job was a totally depraved man. As a totally depraved man, Job deserved to suffer. Job questions God in the book of Job, claiming that he is a righteous man and doesn’t deserve his tribulations. However, this argument is false. Job may not have done any noticeable sins, but Job still sinned, and even the smallest sin is punishable by

There are two types of evil that seem unrelated but correspond directly with one another. Moral evil is the “Evil produced by the hands of moral agents” (Elwell 414) meaning that moral evil is the result of bad choices made through free-will; i.e. war. When moral agents make poor decisions the effect is not only shown in human interaction but also in nature. Natural evil is the consequence of moral evil in nature; i.e. earthquakes. The Garden of Eden is a prime example. Adam and Eve were moral agents who had free-will. In their free-will they decided to act against God and as a result nature fell; there were thorns, diseases,