Problem of Pain, Ch. 1: When Lewis was an atheist
Question 1 Problem of Pain, Ch. 1: When Lewis was an atheist, what was the one question he says he never dreamed asking himself?
Why does God permit evil and suffering to exist in the world?
What possible use religion has, even if God does not exist
Whether or not God exists
Why, if the world is so bad, did anyone ever believe it was the creation of a good, powerful deity?
Question 2 Problem of Pain, Ch. 1: What does Lewis mean by “the numinous”?
The condition of spiritual blindness which prevents nonbelievers from recognizing God’s reality
An awareness of the reality of the moral law
An experience of awe, wonder, or dread at the presence of some sort of “supernatural” presence or reality
The principle that God and the world are really one and the same
Question 3 Problem of Pain, Ch. 2: According to Lewis, what is one kind of action that even God cannot do?
Perform self-contradictory tasks
Change or suspend the laws of nature
Eliminate all the suffering in the world
Know the future
Question 4 Problem of Pain, Ch 2: According to Lewis, what must God also create if he wishes to create “a society of free souls”?
A heaven as the place of reward for just and worthy souls
A hell to serve as the place of punishment for wicked souils
A set of moral rules for them to live by
A relatively independent and “inexorable” Nature
Question 5 Problem of Pain, Ch. 3: Which analogy does Lewis NOT use in describing God’s relationship with human beings?
The analogy of a craftsperson and a work of art
The analogy of a child and its parent
The analogy of an animal pet and its owner
The analogy of an athletic coach and a novice athlete
Question 6 Problem of Pain, Ch. 3: What errors does Lewis seek to avoid in talking about God’s goodness?
The error of thinking that God is perfectly good, and the error of thinking that God is not at all good
The error of thinking that God owes humans everything, and the error of thinking that God owes humans nothing
The error of thinking that God’s goodness is like that of a parent for its children, and the error of thinking that God’s goodness is like that of a grandparent for its grandchildren
The error of thinking that God’s goodness means nothing like what we mean by goodness, and the error of thinking that God’s goodness means exactly what we mean by goodness
Question 7 Problem of Pain, Ch. 4: Which of the following is one of the reasons Lewis gives for why it is “very hard” for modern people to recognize the fact of human wickedness?
Most of us are convinced that we are really good people deep down, despite appearances to the contrary
Many people in Western societies have given up on the religious world view
Most of us do not feel anything except kindness to be really good or anything but cruelty to be really bad
Most of us really do not believe that any actions at all are “wicked”
Question 8 Problem of Pain, Ch. 4: What does Lewis say the likely result will be “when [someone] attempts to be [a] Christian without…[a] preliminary consciousness of sin”?
There is likely to result a certain resentment against God as to one who is always making impossible demands and always inexplicably angry
There is likely to result a much healthier, less guilt-obsessed form of religious belief
There is likely to result an inflated sense of egotism on the part of the religious believer
There is likely to result a heightened inclination to look down on those who do not share one’s own beliefs
Question 9 Problem of Pain, Ch 5: What does Lewis consider the “great sin” of the original humans to have been?
Lust, or indulging the appetites rather than pursuing spiritual goods
Sloth, or laziness and indifference to one’s eternal welfare
Wrath, or nurturing feelings of hatred and resentment toward others
Pride, or choosing the self rather than God as the center
Question 10 Problem of Pain, Ch. 5: The doctrine of the Fall claims humans were created good, but then became bad; Lewis imagines someone objecting to this by saying, “We now know…that so far from having fallen out of a primeval state of virtue and happiness, men have slowly risen from brutality and savagery.’” How does Lewis answer this objection?
The objection confuses “savagery” in a moral sense (e.g. aggression), with savagery in an artistic sense (e.g. an artwork being rough and unfinished).
Our knowledge of the remote human past is far too limited to be able to make a claim about what humans were “originally” like
The objection confuses “savagery” in a physical sense (e.g. using primitive tools), with “savagery” in a moral sense (being wicked, or wretched)
Whether humans were originally virtuous or “savage” makes no difference to the doctrine of the Fall
Question 11 Problem of Pain, Ch. 6: What does Lewis state as “the proper good of a creature”?
To fulfill one’s own destiny, however one defines it
To be kind to others
To exercise its freedom in whatever way it chooses
To surrender itself to its Creator
Question 12 Problem of Pain, Ch. 6: Lewis says that “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience…” but does what in our pains?
Ignores
Scolds
Shouts
Murmers
Question 13 Problem of Pain, Ch. 8: Which of the following is NOT one of the “supports” cited by Lewis for the reality of hell?
Reason
Scripture, and specifically the words of
Christ Tradition–“it has always been held by Christendom”
Popular opinion
Question 14 Problem of Pain, Ch 8: What was Bertrand Russell’s comment concerning the fact that Jesus believed in hell?
It shows that Christ was indeed the Son of God
Christ’s belief in hell reflects only the popular superstitions of his day
It is all the evidence one could need that hell is indeed a reality
It is a serious defect in Christ’s moral character
Question 15 Problem of Pain, Ch. 10: According to Lewis, why are we “very shy nowadays of even mentioning heaven”?
Most of us neither believe in nor desire heaven
We are afraid of being told that we are trying to “escape” from the duty of making a happy world here and now into dreams of a happy world elsewhere.
Heaven is a deeply personal idea about which it is not appropriate to speak in most social situations
The idea of heaven is deeply unscientific and seemingly “irrational”
Question 16 Problem of Pain, Ch. 10: What does Lewis refer to as the “ultimate law”?
A=A
Survival of the fittest
Self-surrender
“What goes around comes around”
Question 17 Craig, “Suffering and evil: the logical problem:” Which two statements are said to be logically inconsistent?
“God made humans in his own image,” and “humans made God in their own image”
Humans have a life-drive (eros), and a death-drive (thanatos)
“An all-powerful, all-loving God exists,” and “Suffering exists”
“An all-powerful, all-loving God exists,” and “human beings have a power of free choice”
Question 18 Craig, “Suffering and evil: the probability version”: what do probabilities always have to be judged relative to?
The best and most up-to-date scientific judgments
Popular opinion
One’s initial “hunches” about the probabilities
Background information
Question 19 Craig, “Suffering and evil: the probability version”: Which one of the following is NOT one of the Christian doctrines that “increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering”?
The chief purpose of life is not happiness
Mankind is in a state of rebellion against God and His purposes
If God does not exist, then objective moral values also do not exist
God’s purpose is not restricted to this life but spills over beyond the grave into eternal life
Question 20 “Shadowlands” film: Why did Lewis agree to marry Joy “technically”, without planning to live with her as her husband?
In order to facilitate Joy’s divorce from her American husband
In order to extend his British citizenship to her and her sons
In order to spite Lewis’s Magdalen College colleagues
Because they both realized that Joy was dying of cancer
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