- God is perfect and made a perfect world
- wanted to express how wonderful God is
- was a Christian - took the Bible literally
- thought that evil was due to man's sin - Adam and Eve
- said that moral evil is our fault, and physical evil the punishment
- "All evil is either sin (M.E) or the punishment for sin (P.E)"
- God is innocent from evil
- At the end of time, we will be judged, and then will go to heaven or hell
Augustine's theodicy dominated until the 1800s
Augustine's theodicy, while strong, is probably wrong.
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