Early Fathers Conceptualize Gods Benevolence as Intentional ! In the end, in a fallen world, all theology becomes theodicy | In the 2nd and 3rd Centuries the Christian world had to contend with the ditheism of Marcion, a prime example of trying to apprehend the truth of Christian theology through the Greek lens. He cast the God of the Old Testament as in opposition to the Son in the New. Wrath and justice against goodness and forgiveness. Indeed, it seems that Marcions legacy still prevails today to listen to some. The solution was found in Ireanæus, who argues that in the absence of either of the two attributes, God would cease to be God: | If the God who judges be not also good, so as to bestow favors on those on whom He ought, and to repay those whom He should, He will be as a Judge neither wise nor just. On the other hand, if the good God be only good, and not also able to test those on whom He shall bestow His goodness, He will be outside goodness as well as outside justice, and His goodness will seem imperfect, inasmuch as it does not save all, as it should do if it be not accompanied with judgement. Marcion, therefore, by dividing god into tow, the on a God who judges, and the other a God who is good, on both sides puts an end to God. Ireanæus, Against Heresies Book 3.25.2
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