RE: Plantinga's "Free Will" defense contradicts Christianity
February 7, 2020 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2020 at 3:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I most certainly does matter, to the great many christians who have a different take on christianity than you.
Moral knowledge is commonly seen as a precondition for moral responsibility. If human beings lacked moral knowledge prior to eating the fruit, it is difficult to justify the subsequent consequence. Not wanting to die isn't moral knowledge by anyone's reckoning. Sure, it's probably enough to keep you and I from doing something...but it didn't stop Eve.
Here's something to consider. Would greater honesty on gods part have stopped Eve? God told his two pets that they would die, but I don't recall him ever laying out the hundreds of thousands of years of pain and misery that would have to follow. Not just hers, but her childrens, and her childrens childrens children..so on and so forth until a literal end of days. Whatever we knew and didn't know before we ate the fruit, we don't seem to have been as completely informed as we might have wanted to be.
Moral knowledge is commonly seen as a precondition for moral responsibility. If human beings lacked moral knowledge prior to eating the fruit, it is difficult to justify the subsequent consequence. Not wanting to die isn't moral knowledge by anyone's reckoning. Sure, it's probably enough to keep you and I from doing something...but it didn't stop Eve.
Here's something to consider. Would greater honesty on gods part have stopped Eve? God told his two pets that they would die, but I don't recall him ever laying out the hundreds of thousands of years of pain and misery that would have to follow. Not just hers, but her childrens, and her childrens childrens children..so on and so forth until a literal end of days. Whatever we knew and didn't know before we ate the fruit, we don't seem to have been as completely informed as we might have wanted to be.
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