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    It is not the case that Augustine's deprivation theory holds that evil is the absence of good, and Hell represents maximal privation of the goods constitutive of rational personhood.

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    • 1.Absence alone cannot cause felt suffering; we need positive explanation of Hell's phenomenological torment, not mere privation.
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    • 2.If God sustains all being, withdrawing goods seems like active destruction—not passive absence—making God causally responsible anyway.
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    • 3.Eternal deprivation of personhood goods seems disproportionate to finite sins, suggesting the punishment framework needs independent justification.
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    • 1.Privation theory avoids making God creator of evil by treating evil as absence rather than positive creation.
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    • 2.Rational personhood depends on goods like knowledge, autonomy, and communion; Hell's deprivation of these explains torment.
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    • 3.This framework preserves divine omnipotence: God need not actively create suffering, only permit withdrawal of sustaining goods.
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