Evil - Is God the Cause?

The problem bothering Saint Augustine as a youth is the problem that plagues many people today. The problem is as follows. God seems to be the cause of evil. Because he is the Creator of all things. Now that evil is a reality, God seems to be the cause of evil. Although Augustine appears to be logical about this reasoning process, he insists that a good god may be the cause of evil. Among this resistance, he showed much reverence even before he was completely converted. He will not accept the faithful notion that God is the cause of evil. Even if he can not solve the problem, he is still faithful to God.

When we ask questions about God, we should remember this. We should not ask this question. Just as we put God in the box of defendant and ask him to explain ourselves to us. Many people are doing this. When they saw how many evil things have happened to the good people they have reached the conclusion that God does not exist or that God does not care. This is a kind devout devout. People should not be addicted to this with honesty and integrity. Even in the worst case, Augustine has never worked this way.

I will return to the problem. Augustine did not want to say that God is the cause of evil. Also, I do not want to say that evil is not a reality. From his own experience he reveals that evil is a real factor in his life and the lives of other people. He eventually solved the problem by discovering evil It is a reality to a certain extent, but it is neither a real reality nor a perfect existence. This is a kind of poverty like blindness. Let's review

Whether it is blind or vision, this is a big difference for a single human being. But blindness is not a complete reality, not strictly speaking. Totally blind is the lack of quality that should be present in the organs of the eye. In other words, blindness is defects, defects, and imperfections. The lack of this technical name is the word "poverty". Now evil is a sort of poverty. Our human behavior should have been a lack of goodwill. If we do not obey the God's will and do not obey, we will take actions devoid of good wisdom deserving it. Creatures should follow their creator. Then, evil behavior is disorganized, flawed. Here, people are carriers, not gods.

Through this solution, St. Augustine maintains the glory of God as a creator of good, while confirming that evil is a reality. It is not a complete reality or existence, but on the contrary, it is a type of poverty, the reason being that person's will. Therefore, human will will eventually cause the moral evil of the world. It is due to the disobedience of Adam and Eve who brought evil to mankind. Through human sin, death is brought to men. Indeed, angels brought evil to the universe by rebelling against God. But their evil did not touch humans until Adam and Eve heard the snake in the garden. Therefore, if you want to oppose the fact that people die of earthquakes and other natural disasters, let's blame men. It is a moral evil of evil that brings physical evil of huge death to the world.

The problem of evil was first told by Greek philosopher Epicurus 371 - 270. Since then, many philosophers and theologians have fought against the evil problem on the existence of God. Like the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, God does not exist. Theodicy is a field of theology dealing with dealing with opposition to the existence of nature and moral evil, defending the quality of God. The sermons of Augustine and Elen sought to prove this by proveing ​​evil of nature. There are two main types of evil, nature and morality, completely different. Natural disasters are natural disasters that occur worldwide. They have no perfect or artificial reasons, and John Hick expresses it as "evil unrelated to human behavior" in the "god of evil and love". Therefore, many people believe that God is the cause of these disasters. Richard Swinburn is "Do you have a god"? '

I agree with Augustine 's logic that free will is the cause of evil, but I will also explain the big paradox. Augustine said, "God is the second cause of evil, but will never lead to the first god ... because there is no sole cause of evil" (Cahn 357). This description is logical, but because God's creation can be said to be evil, not cause of God, it can be interpreted as having a flaw in the same sense. If God is the creator of all things, then is he not involved in the creation of his work?