(April 7, 2016 at 1:23 pm)SteveII Wrote: To Augustine the source of evil is in the free will of persons: "And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of our doing ill."[5] Evil was a "perversion of the will, turned aside from...God" to lesser things.[6]
from article by Greg Koukl http://www.str.org/articles/augustine-on...waWYfkrJhE
Yes, Augustine believed in the literal existence of Adam & Eve, who, per Augustine, would have lived forever in a natural Paradise had they not disobeyed god.
