(March 6, 2016 at 3:01 am)robvalue Wrote: I've never heard an answer to this. Time and again, "free will" is brought up as a get-out-of-jail-free card for God's negligence. Examples like this are brought up to show the gaping holes in the idea, and then it just drifts off into the sunset after getting no reply, waiting for the process to repeat.
Any christian like to have a stab at this? (Anyone who is interested in defending God to some higher standard than "everything he does is great".)
I don't see how it can be done without being skewered on the horns of the Euthypro dilemma or running afoul of Epicurus' paradox. All I've seen from the Jesus camp is smoke and mirrors on the subject. Good luck with that.
