The Problem of Evil: Augustine
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- The Problem of Evil: Augustine
- Based on Genesis 3 (Story of the fall) Romans 5:12-20
- Good God created the world and the creation was good.
- Evil = 'privation of good' not an entity itself.
- Just as blindness is a privation of sight.
- Evil = 'privation of good' not an entity itself.
- Evil was a result of angels who turned away from God.
- Misused their free will and tempted Adam and Eve = origin of moral evil.
- All humans = 'seminally present in the loins of Adam'
- Born with original sin therefore natural evil = punishment
- Soul deciding theodicy
- The choice to obey God is ours.
- End of Time
- Judgement day: good go to heaven, the bad go to hell
- Evil is punished
- Augustine argued God's world can still be perfect in the end.
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