Comments on: Augustine Our Contemporary http://www.inhabitatiodei.com/2009/08/31/augustine-our-contemporary/ Where youthful Barthianism never dies Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Geoff http://www.inhabitatiodei.com/2009/08/31/augustine-our-contemporary/comment-page-1/#comment-10361 Geoff Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:33:25 +0000 http://www.inhabitatiodei.com/?p=2821#comment-10361 Before I knew about Augustine I had serious problems with what it means to be made in God's image. I was fourteen. The problem of evil did not bother me, but I did have a severe awareness of evil in my own heart that made the evils of the world. When I first read the bible the stories of the Old Testament seemed barbaric, but it made sense for God to deal with violence by utterly eradicating it, the problem I see now is that violence for violence makes God just the most powerful of violent perpetrators, unless violence is not always evil, but must merely be exercised by the proper Agent...God, for he is love, so he can never misfire. But it still seem to be an all to easy answer. But those concerns in Augustine were never apparent to me until I was 19 years old, delivering pizza and reading Augustine and Plato in between deliveries. Before I knew about Augustine I had serious problems with what it means to be made in God’s image. I was fourteen. The problem of evil did not bother me, but I did have a severe awareness of evil in my own heart that made the evils of the world. When I first read the bible the stories of the Old Testament seemed barbaric, but it made sense for God to deal with violence by utterly eradicating it, the problem I see now is that violence for violence makes God just the most powerful of violent perpetrators, unless violence is not always evil, but must merely be exercised by the proper Agent…God, for he is love, so he can never misfire. But it still seem to be an all to easy answer.
But those concerns in Augustine were never apparent to me until I was 19 years old, delivering pizza and reading Augustine and Plato in between deliveries.

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