Theology and God's Inherent Problems

In the confessions, augustine says that man is incapable of rising up to produce merits and before god. And so what's needed is an act of mercy on god's part - but because i'm already owed punishment, god doesn't have to give mercy. So this introduces a sense of arbitrariness on god's mark. He could not write sot up to him. We should be grateful if he does not surprised if he doesn't stell craz ing for his justice. If we really understand what i am, without this sort of supernatural underpinning, i can't do anything that would ever be pleasing to god. There's, you know, that necessity of sin,

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