How Would He Likely Respond To Augustine's Account?

3) How does Augustine attempt to reconcile the fact that an all-powerful, all loving God could allow these things to happen? Be sure to provide an account for both human generated evils and natural evils. Given Hume’s account of ideas, how would he likely respond to Augustine’s account? Who do you think provides the more compelling response?

Augustine is a well-known philosopher who is known for describing what a “free will” is and that it is something that every single one of us has. A free will is the ability for all of us to make our own decisions. Augustine argues that when God created man, God wanted man to perform actions that were “truly authentic”. He could have made us perfect human beings who just do good actions all of the time, but there would have been no meaningful purpose of our actions if we were programmed to only do good things one hundred percent of the time.
God designed us to have the ability to do good things
These “larger-scale punishments” are called natural evils according to Augustine. These natural evils consist of any natural disasters (such as tornados and hurricanes) and diseases (such as the flu). Augustine argues that no one is truly safe from the just punishments that God is required to give out. These natural evils are Gods’ way of justly punishing humanity because we have gone away from God’s plan.
Even though these natural evils might seem to be random because they seem to appear on Earth very sporadically. Augustine argues that since we are finite beings, we will never be able to fully understand God. One of the many things that we will never be able to understand is the logicality in how God punishes sins. There could very well be a pattern in how God justly punishes the sins of humanity. Augustine argues that there has to be reasons behind the methodology of administering natural evils against