Augustine On The Existence Of God Analysis

In discussing about the existence of God, Saint Augustine’s view is that God is not subject to decay, to harm or to change. He believes that only inferior beings are subject to decay, and that includes everything and everyone living on Earth. Therefore, anything that could not decay was evidently more superior. Yet, Augustine finds himself unsure about the form of God, since he does not take the form of a human being and anything within the Earth, since God is not subject to decay and if it cannot decay, how can it exist? He then finds himself, formulating the idea that there is a place, a pure place, in which something can exist but at the same time, cannot; almost like a alternate universe to our own, something that we can not see. Hence, from this pure place, lives a great power that has the ability to create and this great power is what is called, God.

To give the place a location that we can see with the human eye, Augustine says that God is in everything and is everywhere, and in return everything and everywhere exists within God; hence everyone has a little bit of God within us. Or rather as Augustine puts it, “everything is full of God”. However, as soon as he came to this conclusion, he realised that some things have more God within them than others based on their physical size. He …show more content…
In his own words, “no principle of decay can taint God”, whose will is wholly good and incapable to decay. Unlike everything underneath him within creation, even those on the higher spiritual plan, are able to decay; That is, their God given goodness, is able to decay, rot, be spoiled and become bad, or in this case, evil. Which is a probable explanation of what happened to the Devil, if he was indeed an angel. Because he was not God, but beneath him, he was capable to decay and his goodness decayed into evil, and of course he