(September 27, 2013 at 2:14 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: -This argument is rich and rigorous. Your terminology is on-point and very accurate. If you wrote all this you obviously know a lot and I am impressed!
I did; thank you.
Quote:-A minor quibble: When you wrote "God can violate free will", did you mean the opposite?
Hah, yeah. That would make the theist have to believe that God cannot reveal himself to people, which would throw modern Christian Biblical interpretation out the window (no prophets).
Quote:-Many responses to this argument would be similar (or identical) to responses given to the problem of evil. The free will defense, for example is most famous.
I don't see how that would work though. If God cannot make at least the method of salvation explicit and obvious in Scripture despite having chosen that medium to convey the method, that would seem in contradiction to his capabilities and desires.
Quote:-A less famous objection that could be forwarded would be the divine providence objection.
Hm? Could you elaborate?
