Augustines free-will defense

Question 1

what was the main point of augustines free-will defense arguement

Answer 1

-God gave us freewill but along with freewill comes the abily to choose evil and evil exisits because some people misuse their God given ability to reason and choose to do evil acts

Question 2

give two weakness’s to freewill defense

Answer 2

-does.t explain natural evil only moral evil

-Why would God not have just desinged morrally supiour beings that are free but just don’t choose to do evil

Question 3

“Why would God not have just desinged morrally supiour beings that are free but just don’t choose to do evil” - give a responce to this

Answer 3

These beings would not actually be free - cannot freely only choose good - Plantiga states that this would be an illustian of freedom