Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Free Will Defence

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Strengths:

It makes logical sense.

Even an omnipotent being could not do the logically possible. - So does not undermine God's power.
A world with free creatures is more valuable than a world without.
Freedom is what makes any love, joy, goodness worth having.
With no freedom there's no achievement and no real happiness.
This could be why God allows evil to exist.
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Weaknesses:

It is not a convincing response to the evidential problem of evil as it does not cover why pointless animal suffering still occurs.
1- It is logically possible for a person to make free, good choices all the time.
2- God could've created humans so that they would only make free, good choices.
3- God did not do so.

Premise 2 doesn't make sense.
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Weaknesses:

It is not a convincing response to the evidential problem of evil as it does not cover why pointless animal suffering still occurs.

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1- It is logically possible for a person to make free, good choices all the time.
2- God could've created humans so that they would only make free, good choices.
3- God did not do so.

Premise 2 doesn't make sense.

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