1.

The paradox of God's existence and human free will seem to be mutually exclusive possibilities. Because it is
challenging to understand how our decisions can be free if we assert that God's foreknowledge is unquestionably
certain, that God is the origin of all behavior, or that God's grace is required for us to make the right decisions because
God's knows the beginning and the end. And God’s activity puts freedom at risk and that our free choices are free from
God’s activity. On the other hand, if we assert that our decisions are truly free, it appears that we must reject God's
involvement in them, either as a sure cause or as a certain source of knowledge. As a result, God is not omnipresent or
omnipotent.

St. Augustine response to this paradox is what we refer to as Augustine's compatibilist idea of coexistence between
an all-knowing God who has everything created in accordance with universal laws and people who have the freedom to
act however they see fit. Both divine activity and human freedom are present in Christ. By voluntarily accepting a
covenant that God freely gave, we live and behave in grace. For him, freedom of choice is not threatened by God's
activity, and God's activity is not exempt from freedom of choice. St. Augustine believes that there are two
unquestionable truths in this situation. On the one hand, we come from any application of our ability to think rationally
about the world. To the awareness of God, the creator and origin of all things. On the other hand, the fact that humans
have free will is obvious.

2.

St. Thomas Aquinas stated that everything has an end or a final cause which it naturally inclined to. And this “final
cause” provides a natural standard of value and excellence. According to him, all laws are based on divine reason and
are a part of a whole, articulated system. Above all else, he claimed, eternal law comes first, followed by natural law,
human law, and divine law.

So now, I will first describe what is Natural Law. According to St. Aquinas, the natural law has some fundamental and
self-evident percepts or mandates, demands that are known to every human. This means that we act according to our
reason. This is shown whenever we make the right practical decisions about what is ultimately best for us in a given
scenario and when we behave in line with those decisions. For example, I want to maintain a healthy lifestyle and in
order to achieve it, I must do exercises and eat healthy foods. By knowing what's good for me and to all of us is the
fundamental kind of reason that God has given us to comprehend the Natural law.

Next is the Human Law, Human law refers to rules developed by people using logic. Generally speaking, said laws are
necessary for humanity to create a sense of consistency and control within our environment. We need to be part of the
society with accordance of natural law to discover our real good. Some examples of human law include traffic laws, such
as those requiring the usage of seatbelts, speed limit and traffic lights. As a result, even with rules that lawmakers have
created themselves, we tend to follow them because human laws are just an extension of religious and theological
arguments.

Lastly is the Divine Law, it is a law that was imparted to humanity by God himself through a reliable medium, such as
written or spoken messages. The Ten Commandments or the Bible both served as examples of this in Christianity. It
stands to reason that the message conveyed to humanity by Divine Law serves as a means of illuminating or explaining
Eternal Law. In fact we still adhere the messages like "thou shalt not kill" because this represent a universal
understanding that still and will be known for coming years.