Theodicy is the discussion of theories over why God allows bad things happen to good people. Everyday people experience bad things. There are the natural evils of the world like illness‚ hurricanes‚ tsunamis‚ earthquakes. There are the evils humans commit against one another like murder‚ abuse‚ and all sorts of betrayals. Evil leads humans to question the power of God and even the existence of God. God is supposed to be powerful. He is supposed to help us. He is supposed to answer our prayers. People
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to understand how Augustine’s reflections in the Free Choice of the Will on the theodicy problem are Socratic (Book 1). Theodicy is a branch of philosophy dealing with the issue of evil considering the existence of God. The theodicy problem arises from the notion that if God is an omnipotent and just being‚ then why is there evil in the world? Could it be that God is the creator of the evil within the world? Augustine reflects on these topics not only in a Socratic manner‚ but also displays elements
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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
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AUGUSTINE Augustine was born November 13‚ A.D. 354‚ in Tagaste (it is call today Souk Ahras‚ Algeria); and died seventy six years later in Hippo Regius (pp.1) Augustine was raise up in a family with both parents his father (Patricius) who was a nonbeliever until later in life and Augustine mother (Monica) a child of God. Augustine was taught at a young age about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by his mother; Augustine like any other young teenager did not like school but at the same time had
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In Augustine being able to define the act of free will‚ helps him be able to define the origin of evil. Augustine was firm on the belief that there was only one God whose goodness was infinite. The question that always came up was‚ “how‚ then‚ can one explain the existence of evil?” He believed that God created will‚ and therefore its good‚ but will is still able to make its own decisions. It’s good for will to be free even though this could possibly create evil. Augustine answer to the question
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Theodicies‚ the attempts to explain the presence of both an all powerful‚ benevolent God and seemingly pointless suffering‚ have been formulated‚ challenged‚ and revised for millennia. Philosopher and theologian John Hick grouped these theodicies into two distinct types: Augustinian and Irenaean. Augustinian theodicies indicate that evil came into existence to punish man for its initial and purposeful sin in the Christian Garden of Eden. Therefore‚ all evil that exists exists to reprimand mankind
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further gracious evil that of moral and natural kind to occur. Theodicy objects the central claim and supporting argument by offering reasonings as to why God would allow instances of evil to occur and this notion is support by three primary supporting arguments of Theodicy. The first covers the concept of soul-making‚ the second is that of the free will of humans and the last is the
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of how God created the world and that it was good; evil is just a result of the man’s thoughts. The story of Adam and Eve caused natural sin for man. Augustine stated that natural evil which is present in the natural world such as natural disasters. Augustine thinks angels cause this‚ however moral evil is caused by the persons thoughts. Augustine appealed that God might not have created evil in the world‚ because he created good‚ and all this ideas of evil proves lack of goodness in humans. Therefore
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directed at the abandonment of God‚ and it can only be stopped when the Jews recover their true faith in God. The final Jewish apocalypse author who attempts to create a theodicy for the Jewish people is the author of Daniel 8 and 9. In Daniel 8‚ Daniel has a vision of a battling goat and ram. The ram by the river represents the Persian Empire‚ while the goat in the west with one horn represents the Greek Empire. The two empires battle‚ and the goat becomes the victor. Then‚ from the single horn
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question a good theodicy is something that must have strong evidence and does a balance between good and evil. Something that defends God being good and not evil. C.S. Lewis in “The Problem of Evil” talks about theodicy‚ defends God’s goodness against evil in the world by talking about how works have multiple meanings (Lewis 16). Lewis talked about how theodicy would be good if only the suffering was divided evenly between everyone (Lewis 96). Then Lewis explains that his theodicy is about the
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