challenge to the free will defence
- Created by: Fi Alade
- Created on: 11-04-14 21:09
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- challenges to the fwd
- Mackie: there is no logical contradiction in God creating us to always freely choose good
- liberty of spontaneity not indifference
- not morally significant
- this is logically impossible and God cannot do it
- his failure to do this makes him not wholly good
- liberty of spontaneity not indifference
- God's omnipotence has no limits
- God can only do the logically possible
- no satisfactory explanation for natural evil
- responsibility of angels is doubted
- only has to be possible not plausible (to combat l.p.o.e.
- if as punishment for Adam and Eve - too large a scale
- responsibility of angels is doubted
- no evidence therefore option not explanation
- Swinburne: death is necessary evil --> limited chances increase importance
- free will necessitates evil
- Mackie: there is no logical contradiction in God creating us to always freely choose good
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