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Theodicy: Sufferings
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The last epicycle of theodicy is the famed cop-out, “God works in mysterious ways”. It is used when all other answers fail. It is an admission of the failure of theodicy, of the failure of the God-hypothesis to explain anything. It is a self-defeating defence.
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Non-dual mysticism answers the question of theodicy by maintaining that every seemingly separate person is in fact a thought, dream, or experience of God. God creates and becomes / experiences each creation, deliberately limiting itself to a specific identity in space and time to undergo a particular life experience. Therefore it is God who experiences every pain, suffers every indignity, dies every death, experiences the illusion of being each separate individual.
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The typical modern reader might hear Luke's doctrine in Acts 17 as vintage Christian eschatology and so pay no special attention to it as theodicy. And to forestall this, Luke returns to just this material in two of Paul's speeches to the governor Felix.
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The purpose of this paper is to further the study of religion and well-being by focusing on the effects of specific theodicy beliefs in addition to the more traditional indicators of religious activity. Further, I will argue that the effects of these beliefs are not the same across all social contexts; rather, personal characteristics (i.e., race) and social factors moderate the relationship such that the effects of theodicy are stronger for some groups than for others.
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Although when Josephus describes the Sadducees he never explicitly compares them to the Epicureans, this is a safe assumption.(39) He likewise describes them in stereotypical form as those who reject theodicy. For example,
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It is ... – this question of theodicy, as it is called - one of the primary condemnations of theism offered by unbelievers. “Western atheism,” writes theologian Rick Watts, “is a protest movement against a God whom it holds responsible for inaction.” Our mission demands we at least try to articulate an answer, for the sake of opening minds closed to the richness of life in God by an apparently impossible contradiction.
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