Assess the view that Augustine's interpretation of the fall successfully explains the problem of evil


	Assess the view that Augustine's interpretation of the fall successfully explains the problem of evil
	Advantages emphasises the fact that christians need to put their faith in God and trust his judgement may be wrong about the fall being the exact reason for all evil and suffering, he could still be right about human nature being corrupted by OS MAIN POINT- variety 'privatio boni' balance of good and evil. naturally things will have more strengths and abilities than others	Disadvantages not our fault we have original sin, does a child deserve cancer because of OS he could maintain adults deserve natural evil, but its illogical to say the same for children who cant even consciously choose to sin reflects on his society and upbringing; not human nature. are the way we are as we are raised that way and nature is blamed for this because of our upbringing being corrupted "educated in evil" PELAGIUS absence of good doesn't justify genocides leaves us to question the all-loving God created view from biblical text taken literally especially 'fallen angels'.
	Evaluation Fails to solve or justify logical problem of evil

emphasises the fact that christians need to put their faith in God and trust his judgement
may be wrong about the fall being the exact reason for all evil and suffering, he could still be right about human nature being corrupted by OS
MAIN POINT- variety 'privatio boni' balance of good and evil. naturally things will have more strengths and abilities than others

not our fault we have original sin, does a child deserve cancer because of OS
he could maintain adults deserve natural evil, but its illogical to say the same for children who cant even consciously choose to sin
reflects on his society and upbringing; not human nature. are the way we are as we are raised that way and nature is blamed for this because of our upbringing being corrupted "educated in evil" PELAGIUS
absence of good doesn't justify genocides
leaves us to question the all-loving God
created view from biblical text taken literally especially 'fallen angels'.

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