Quotes

• Solutions to the problem of suffering

  Everything created by God is good

  1 Timothy
• Existence of suffering

  ‘Suffering is the rock of atheism’

  David Hume
• 'The world is full of evil' - St Augustine
• 'God made everything beautiful in its time.' - Ecclesiastes
• "I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you." - Isaiah
• 'God allows us to suffer so that we can grow spiritually' - Pope John Paul II
• 'We are not here just to be happy, but also to do what is right and true.' - St Thomas Aquinas
• 'If one member suffers, all members suffer with it' - Corinthians
• The cosmological (causation) argument

  ‘We need a first cause, that first cause is God’

  St Thomas Aquinas
• The design argument

  ‘Ever since the creation of the world God’s nature can be seen.’

  Romans 1
• Religious experience

  ‘Religious experiences are extraordinary experience of the divine’

  Richard Swinburne
• Miracles

  Examples at Lourdes or Jesus turning water into wine

  ‘Miracles are a braking of a law of

  nature.’ David Hume
• Visions

  Either Joan of Arc, OR the transfiguration,

  ‘the disciples saw a vision of Jesus.’ Matthew 17
• Revelation

  ‘Jesus reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of His nature’

  Hebrews