RE: Why God doesn't stop satan?
June 8, 2021 at 6:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2021 at 6:37 pm by R00tKiT.)
(June 8, 2021 at 6:14 pm)Helios Wrote:(June 8, 2021 at 6:09 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It may not be an excuse, but it’s certainly a plausible explanation.I must disagree that freewill is sufficient to explain evil
Boru
What kind of an answer is that. Do you consider yourself some expert philosopher of religion?
(June 8, 2021 at 5:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 8, 2021 at 4:30 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Theists also maintain that the presence of evil (or evil beings like Satan) is compatible with free will.....
Of course it is. What’s not compatible with free will is the Abrahamic god.
Boru
How is that. If an all-powerful God wants his creatures to have free will, then there is no contradiction. And BTW under the theistic assumption it is God who put this moral compass and repugnance toward evil within us. We created laws and jurisdictions to stop evil precisely because of this inner compass.
In any case, the problem of evil has nothing to do with God's existence but only with His omnibenevolence, and Plantinga solved this logical problem decades ago.