Augustine's Limitations
(1) God can perform any action the performance of which is logically consistent and consistent with God’s own nature. Even though God is omnipotence and God has the power to do anything, but some philosopher argued that God has many limitations. For instance, S.T Thomas Aquinas argues that God’s power must be limited and may not exist at all. He mentions about the squares circle. If square circles cannot exist, then the fact that God cannot make one implies any defect in God’s power. Moreover, God has other limitations too. God cannot do things that require embodiment and God cannot do something that implies a moral fault. Therefore, God has the power to do anything but his power will only be exercised within the context of his nature.
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What I know is evil force people’s mind to do the wrong works. In Islam, the evil is referred to a creature Iblis who was made by God. God gave him power, but he denied to show respect to another creature made by God whose name was Adam. Ibis challenged God that he was superior to everything, but he proved himself to be wrong. Then he became angry with God and became the evil and started to manipulate people’s mind who believe in God. However, from the explanation of the chapter what I found that Augustine sought to resolve the problem of evil by describing evil as a privation of the good. So, we cannot deny that evil exists. Augustine saw the problem of evil as twofold. Natural evil and moral evil. Natural evil is physical things in the created order seem to suffer from defects and limitations and moral evil is when human freely choose to do the wrong thing. Augustine also argues that humanity's capacity to exercise freedom, to freely sin in their fallen condition. However, in Socratic response to the problem, evil is a result of rationally but mistakenly opting for the lesser good or that which is inherently evil. They both believed there are two forces at work in the Universe, namely, the forces of Goodness and of Evil. They explained evil by recourse to the perpetual battle or conflict between the two forces occurring in the cosmos. So, explaining the problem of evil, it depends on what people
What I know is evil force people’s mind to do the wrong works. In Islam, the evil is referred to a creature Iblis who was made by God. God gave him power, but he denied to show respect to another creature made by God whose name was Adam. Ibis challenged God that he was superior to everything, but he proved himself to be wrong. Then he became angry with God and became the evil and started to manipulate people’s mind who believe in God. However, from the explanation of the chapter what I found that Augustine sought to resolve the problem of evil by describing evil as a privation of the good. So, we cannot deny that evil exists. Augustine saw the problem of evil as twofold. Natural evil and moral evil. Natural evil is physical things in the created order seem to suffer from defects and limitations and moral evil is when human freely choose to do the wrong thing. Augustine also argues that humanity's capacity to exercise freedom, to freely sin in their fallen condition. However, in Socratic response to the problem, evil is a result of rationally but mistakenly opting for the lesser good or that which is inherently evil. They both believed there are two forces at work in the Universe, namely, the forces of Goodness and of Evil. They explained evil by recourse to the perpetual battle or conflict between the two forces occurring in the cosmos. So, explaining the problem of evil, it depends on what people