Augustinian Theodicy

The Augustinian Theodicy From Augustine in his booke Confessions in 397AD. His argument was that divinity fudge is sizeable and created a world perfectly good and free from defection, nuisance & suffering. Based on Genesis 1-3 Either graven image can non abolish slimy, or he go out not. If he cannot, he is not all-powerful, if he go out not he is not all-good. Augustine The believer must have, in a cool moment, a solution to the problem of loathsomeness. If he does not, his faith is not rational Richard Swinburne The perfect world God saw all that he had made and saw that it was good. Genesis Evil is a privation of good as darkness is a privation of light. Humanity has free will to choose good over evil. The Fall Natural & moral evil exist because things fell short of what God intended. The penalty of evil corrects the ravish of sin Augustine. God shouldnt intervene because evil is the price of freedom. Humans cant curb the inevitably of them sinning. The fall mar ks the entrance of evil into the world. (The fall being Adams mistake). Humanity has an inherent guilt as descendants of Adam & even (original sin).We have to put up with what we have indirectly done to the Universe. The penalisation for the original sin is seminally present. Intervention There is hope through de detainryman for all. This is a God given opportunity for those with good intentions to find a selfish reason for doing good. Augustines theodicy is soul-deciding. Meaning we have a choice of roadway metaphorically in life. In this way Augustine tries to prove the righteousness of God. By showing that God was right not to intervene when we chose to do maltreat against God.And that giving us the choice of giving our life to christ is a act of generosity. However this contradicts the idea of him being all-loving as this theodicy tells us that God would let there be a way to bring evil & suffering into the world. But if he did not mean this, it either contradicts the i ncident that he is all-knowing or all-powerful. Basically God made a perfect world (is this true? ), humans committed the original sin (God does not have control), evil took the world, God didnt intervene (as a respectable punishment), but he gave us a way to desire to be perfect.Natural evil came through the loss in nature after the fall object lesson evil came through the new knowledge of good and evil which was observed through disobedience. Punishments Separation from God. Expulsion from the garden of Eden. They must now live in a fallen world. Pain in childbirth. Struggle with the globe to yield a harvest. Tension among man and woman. Physical death. grey-headed testament God sends the law & prophets to try and restore the relationship between humans and God. But these methods fail, leading to Jesus. New Testament God sends Jesus. In Augustines eyes this was the best God had to offer.