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Augustine's "Confessions"
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A philosophical question faces Christians, and in fact all theists, that
challenges the belief in God. To theists, God is an omnipotent, perfect God.
He is good. Theists accept this, and embrace it, for how else can they worship
God and give their lives to Him unless He is good? However, n this ....
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....here is no aspect of Him that is
lacking, false, or not good. These characteristics are in turn transferred to
His creation. “You, my God, are the source of all good”(1.6). However,
Augustine makes an important distinction regarding the creation of good and evil
when he says, “O Lord my God, creator and arbiter of all natural things, but
arbiter only, not creator, of sin”(1.10). The question of what evil is, and
where it came from, still remains.
Augustine establishes that everythin.... |
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