 Yet, Augustine and Aquinas would both insist, he remains perfectly good and absolutely holy, a being deserving of our complete reverence and absolute devotion. How might such a thing be possible? Does not the traditional view entail that God is the author of sin in some objectionable way? This objection must be carefully distinguished from the ordinary axiological problem of evil: the question of whether God has sufficiently good reason to allow the evil and suffering which exist. The author of sin objection says that the traditional view involves God too intimately in evil even if he has sufficiently good reason for allowing it.