RE: Plantinga's "Free Will" defense contradicts Christianity
February 7, 2020 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2020 at 3:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
None of these musings on dragons and vicarious redemption offer a resolution to the moral quandaries described. Assume that all of that is true, and the moral dilemma remains. This is why people go through the trouble of coming up with theodicies and defenses (such as platinga's) in the first place.
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