The Problem of Evil: Agustine

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Augustine: general

Answer 2

Evil is merely a privation of good and humans are the cause of evil in gods perfect world

Question 3

Augustine: Privation Boni

Answer 3

god could not create evil, so evil is is only a lack of good This is seen in the garden of Eden, god does not create evil, bit it occurs when Adam and Eve disobey god

Question 4

Augustine: Genesis

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since god is perfect, and god created the world, the world is perfect Seen in the garden of Eden “God saw all that he had made and it was good”

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Augustine: original sin

Answer 5

god gave humans free will so when people choose to disobey god, they create an absence of goodAdam and Evil: They created the original sin by disobeying god As all humans come form Adam, they bear this sin “but because the turning itself is wicked” Agustine, the turning againt god is the evil act

Question 6

Augustine: Jesus

Answer 6

god is truly just and loving To show his justice, he allowed for humans to feel suffering To showing his loving, he allowed Jesus to die in order to give humans salvation out of suffering

Question 7

Augustine: Critisisms

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Schleiermacher: Logical contradiction to say that a perfect world has gone wrong
How could perfect beings choose to do wrong?
Was the world truly made perfect → to much dependence on Genesis
Is it true to say that suffering isn’t real? Denying the reality of the problem.