Sources of authority

• “There are three things in love…love is of someone that loves, and with love something is loved. Behold, then, there are three things: he that loves, and that which is loved, and love.” (St Augustine)
• “We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty…We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God…We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life.” (Nicene Creed)
• “The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John)
• “Who, being in very nature God…made himself nothing” (St Paul – Kenosis Hymn)
• John Hick: God made suffering to help us to grow and learn.
• God does not exist. The belief that God is all powerful, all knowing and all good is an ‘inconsistent triad’ - David Hume
• ISAIAH 53 “He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.”
• For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good? Disease and wounds mean nothing but the absence of health’ (St Augustine)
• “That which is evil…enhances our admiration of the good” (St Augustine Enchiridion)
• “For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good (privation)” (St Augustine Enchiridion)
• “He (God) can bring good, even out of evil” (St Augustine Enchiridion)