(December 7, 2015 at 2:54 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: You're making a category error here. You're initial claim is that people do [morally] bad things. Then you claim people do good things. You list getting a new job, healing, and doing well on a test as good things. But these are not [morally] good things.
Strictly speaking, you're correct here. The terms are conflated when I got lazy talking about two things. Still, it applies to my broader point involving the special pleading used by apologists where God gets praised for good things and we get blamed for bad things. It doesn't have to apply to only "moral" actions.
But even if you take those examples out, my main point still works. Bad moral actions are attributed to people (free will), but God still gets praised when people take morally good actions (such as generous charity). It's still special pleading and it's inconsistent. The closest thing you could get to a defense here would be to say something like "People are in control of their own actions, but I was also praising God because the person took the good action". In that case, why not praise God during bad actions, too?
