Augustine believes that evil is a ‘privation of good’ not an entity in itself. If the world was good when God created it, where did the evil come from? Augustine believes evil was a result of angels who turned away from God, misused their free will and tempted Adam and Eve, which is the origin of moral evil. Augustine reasoned that all humans are worthy of the punishment of evil and suffering because we are “seminally present in the loins of Adam”’ deserving of the punishment for original sin.
It is founded in God, Who did not only create the Ten Commandments, but He is the standard and the law. God allowed sin to come into the world. He did not create it, yet He created the possibility of it. God cannot sin nor even be tempted by sin. He is so holy, just, and full of grace that He had to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for these sins and humans’ depraved condition.
The Biblical worldview of the natural world can be summed up with the verse, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3: 23). Human Identity Man’s identity was to be the ruler over all things on earth (Genesis 1: 28-30), but man’s sin made him unrighteous (Tinsley 2014). Paul declares all humans to be unrighteous, both Jews and Gentiles, in the following quote. “What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage?
God being omnipotent means that he can do anything which means he could have created a world free from evil. The idea of God being Omniscient means he has complete knowledge which again suggests that he should know how to stop evil. And God is also seen as Omnibenevolent which means he is all loving, if this is the case how does he allow his creation to suffer, she should desire to stop evil. The evidential problem of evil is the fact that God’s existence is incompatible with Evil. Augustine’s theodicy responds to the evidential problem of evil, it is based on the book ‘Genesis world made perfectly by
This is primarily done through teaching of Jesus Christ who according to Christian faith and the quote above was sent by god as the perfect sacrifice to atone for the multitude of sins committed by the human race giving humans a chance to be united with god once again through the grace of Jesus. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice due to the way he lived his life in the human form as he only brought good to society but was still persecuted. This persecution despite actually committing any sin resulted in the ideal sacrifice as Jesus Christ was able to suffer the burden of our sins for us in order to allow us to achieve eternal salvation. This act solves the problem of our sins as it offers redemption if we act in the correct way. This premise of redemption through Christ is thoroughly addressed throughout the Christian church through in depth study of the gospels on the life of Jesus Christ as this allows members of the religion to gain an increased grasp on what kind of person Jesus Christ was and what he accomplished.
This clearly states that the sins of one’s society affects every member of the society even though it may affect them in different ways. The American culture is seemed to be either naturalists or supernaturalistic about our worldview opinions of God. Naturalist individuals believe that there is no such thing as God; they believe that science should take full credit for everything that has happened in the world and for our beautiful universe. They believe the man is the creator of all things good and bad in our world. They also believe that there is no force greater than man and the man is the creator of the world.
God is not limited by the laws of logic, since God created these laws and could abolish them if he wished to do so. This view is the strongest affirmation of God’s power. Descartes considered that if God had to conform to the laws of logic and non-contradiction, this would be a limit on God’s absolute power. He held that God created this world with its laws of logic but God would have been capable of creating different universes within different laws of logic. According to Descartes, we simply have no idea what is and what is not possible for God, so we cannot lay down any limitations on God’s absolute omnipotence.
To them, if there is a good side to the world and a bad side to the world, then there must be two gods to keep track of it all. Gnostic believers even present “evidence” defending their position through information found in the secret books of the gnostic gospels (29). Though this argument seems sound, orthodox Christianity is the more popular belief on this subject because the Gnostics were considered ignorantly dualistic; God clearly sent his word through the Bible stating that he is the one and only God that ever was and ever will
He went to work as other men, and most importantly, He was tempted. You might ask if he was in fact God's son why come to this earth as a human. Jesus came to experience humanity, so as a human He could pay the price for the crimes of humanity. Our sins have been nailed to the cross, and we bear them no more. Proclaiming He was God was not Jesus' mission.
Since, Adam was the first man created by God, that makes everyone descendants of Adam's sinful seed. Now in the Old Testament, man offered sacrifices unto God for the forgiveness of their sins, and it was not acceptable by God for the animal to be blemished, sickly, or deformed(Deuteronomy 15:21), only clean and healthy lamb were accepted as sacrifice. The Bible also teaches us in Hebrews 9:22; Almost all things are by the Law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission. People living in the Old testament times were saved by faith. They looked forward to a perfect Savior who would cleanse from sin and establish righteousness.