Discussion Of Augustine's 'Theodicy'
To specify God’s reason for permitting evil or for creating a world that contained evil, this is sometimes called a theodicy, when perhaps evil is necessary, in some way, to the existence of good. God has created a world containing evil and has a good reason for doing so. Augustine tries to tell us what God's reason is for permitting evil. He says, it's that God can create a more perfect universe by permitting evil. The better universe need more mercy, moral standards and free. But the universe with the free creatures it contains and the evil they commit is better than it would have been had it contained neither the free creatures nor this evil. Such an attempt to specify God's reason for permitting evil is called a theodicy; in other words
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Basically, he has focused at the point that why couldn’t the god created a world with free creatures, but free creatures that have no relevant weaknesses, so that they always freely choose to do the right thing? Then evil wouldn't have crept into the world. Then when God has created a creature that by any reasonable standard an imperfection, why did God make an imperfect man than a perfect man, where Weirob has taken himself has the example. He was questioning the reasons or any good purpose for the imperfection. In specifically, Weirob arguments on the objection is that if they are always free to ask for God's help to do A, for any good action A, and that, if they ask, they can get the help of good, and then they will have freedom to do A. So it won't get Weirob to off the hook to claim that, because of God and Adam, he wasn't really free not to be lazy and pick up the bridle. He was free to ask for God's help, and if he had done that, he would have been free to pick up the bridle without delay. As far as he can see, the lack of free will to choose the good is canceled by the guarantee of God's grace, which would be pretty hollow if they weren't free to choose at least that. The whole business of God's grace just sort of cancels the limits on the free
Basically, he has focused at the point that why couldn’t the god created a world with free creatures, but free creatures that have no relevant weaknesses, so that they always freely choose to do the right thing? Then evil wouldn't have crept into the world. Then when God has created a creature that by any reasonable standard an imperfection, why did God make an imperfect man than a perfect man, where Weirob has taken himself has the example. He was questioning the reasons or any good purpose for the imperfection. In specifically, Weirob arguments on the objection is that if they are always free to ask for God's help to do A, for any good action A, and that, if they ask, they can get the help of good, and then they will have freedom to do A. So it won't get Weirob to off the hook to claim that, because of God and Adam, he wasn't really free not to be lazy and pick up the bridle. He was free to ask for God's help, and if he had done that, he would have been free to pick up the bridle without delay. As far as he can see, the lack of free will to choose the good is canceled by the guarantee of God's grace, which would be pretty hollow if they weren't free to choose at least that. The whole business of God's grace just sort of cancels the limits on the free