God didn’t force Adam and Eve to sin, but from all eternity He knew it, He ordained it, and it was part of His glorious plan of redemption. As hard as it is to imagine, even sin, in the final analysis ...
In the simple answer Augustine gave, he was trying to piece together all the different little indications of Scripture, and he said that evil is not a thing. God created every thing good. But evil is ...
Thomas explains that in the world of sense there is an order ... The existence of life and the order of creation can be attributed to God; the cause and creator of the universe.
God created the universe for this very purpose. In addition, He set men and women, created in the divine image, over all other created things; He entrusted them with dominion over the world and ...