Remember How many words used for God can you remember from last lesson? All Loving/ Omnibenevolent All Knowing/ Omniscient All Powerful/ Omnipotent.

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Remember How many words used for God can you remember from last lesson? All Loving/ Omnibenevolent All Knowing/ Omniscient All Powerful/ Omnipotent

The Problem of Evil and the Existence of God Learning Objective: Can God exist with evil and suffering in the world? To revise the qualities of God. To evaluate whether the existence of evil means that God does not exist. To understand how the existence of evil can challenge God’s existence and qualities.

Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen? Write down your thoughts on this clip on your post it note...

Angry Letter of Complaint Half of the room are going to be The Philosopher and write an angry letter of complaint to God. The other half are going to be God and write an angry letter of complaint to the Philosopher. Your letter needs to include the words omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent.

Final Thoughts In your books you need to: Write down 5 keywords from this lesson Summarise your thoughts on whether you agree with God or the Philosopher after hearing the letters of complaint.

The Problem of Evil and the Existence of God Learning Objective: To explore how evil and suffering can challenge the characteristics of God. To revise the qualities of God. To evaluate whether the existence of evil means that God does not exist. To understand how the existence of evil can challenge God’s existence and qualities.