Age: 17 years 7 months 10 days
Man, I feel like an idiot in philosophy class. It’s just that I haven’t really thought through any of the issues. I read, I take notes, and I understand the philosophy and then I don’t think about it. None of the issues have really been like “ oh that’s wrong” or “ oh, I’ve never thought about that one before”.
Anyway right now I’m a bit puzzled over Augustine’s explanation of evil. I don’t know how that fully works. He says evil does not exist. It is a nothingness. It is the term for us deviating from the common order of things. God created everything good. Adam and Eve chose to break God’s order and thus broke our tie with God. But if God created everything good, even though the order of the world has now been messed up by Adam & Eve, should a person be born good with all the potential to choose God and stick to his order all throughout life? Maybe not because they live in a sinful world where things have deviated from God. But every person should have a new potential. Why did Adam and Eve sin spread to every human being?
Augustine’s Theory then says that Satan, though created by God, would be the most void of God and he would bring about the most disorder to God’s creation. That seems to work. It does work.
Augustine says that natural disasters like the flood are not evil, but since the Earth was created to glorify God, these disasters may be inconvenient to us. God uses natural disasters to punish people in the Old Testament. God can’t do something evil, because then he would be corruptible and not God. God can kill people when he feels like it? Well yes, that’s so with every person, huh. But what about diseases and internal levels? Those are just messing up God’s order? They are random events, happening to good and bad people. I’m not getting anywhere. I need to do psych homework.
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