(April 16, 2014 at 4:59 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: There was a thread about the Problem of Heaven in the Christianity section, so I'd thought I'd bring up a related counter-apologetic here: The Problem of Divine Freedom.
Quote:1) For an agent to be morally good, that agent must possess libertarian free will and thus the capacity to do evil. [Plantinga's Free Will Defense]
2) God is an agent, yet cannot do evil. [Common theological position/Divine Command Theory]
3) Therefore God does not have libertarian free will or moral goodness.
Now one response I anticipate is the claim that God could do evil, but he simply chooses not to do it. Despite being in contradiction with Divine Command theory, this makes it mysterious as to why God created beings who had the ability to do evil, and whom inevitably do so. After all, it's logically possible for God to have actualized the possible world where agents with libertarian free will never do evil.
he can't?
how do they know?
who's decides what is "evil" ... humans? really?
a friggin ape knows whats best?
