Augustine argument

Question 1

Part 1

Answer 1

God is perfect. He made the world free from flaws

Question 2

Part 2

Answer 2

God cannot be blamed for creating evil since evil is not a substance but a privation, and it makes no sense to say that God created a privation.

Question 3

Part 3

Answer 3

Evil comes from fallen angels and humans who chose to deliberately turn away from God.

Question 4

Part 4

Answer 4

The possibility of evil in a created world is necessary. Only the uncreated God Himself can be perfect; created things are susceptible to change.

Question 5

Part 5

Answer 5

Everybody is guilty because everyone was seminally present in the loins of Adam.

Question 6

Part 6

Answer 6

Therefore everyone deserves to be punished.

Question 7

Part 7

Answer 7

Natural evil is a fitting punishment and came about because human action destroyed the natural order.

Question 8

Part 8

Answer 8

Therefore God is right not to intervene and put a stop to suffering.

Question 9

Part 9

Answer 9

That God saves some through Christ shows He is merciful as well as just.

Question 10

Part 10

Answer 10

Augustine’s aesthetic argument proposes that despite evil, the world is wholly good when it is viewed in it’s entirety.