(April 17, 2014 at 5:34 am)fr0d0 Wrote: God can't do evil, because he is good. Good is his most basic property. If a positive ion couldn't change into a negative ion, then God would be the positive ion. The negative ion exists as a natural counterpart, but is never the positive ion.
You're contradicting yourself. If God is good and cannot change, it is because the inability to changenis his most basic property, not goodness.
Quote:1. For an agent to be morally good it must be free to act.
2. God is an agent for good
3. God is free to act as his nature dictates
That is a logically invalid argument. Abstracted, it takes this form:
If A, then B;
B;
Therefore A.
There is a clear affirmation of the consequent in premise #2. Secondly, there is an equivocation between #1 and #3. You're equivocating between "free to act" (which is libertarian free will) and "free to act as his nature disctates" (which is compatibilist free will).
Quote:Morality isn't applicable where there is no choice to do evil.
...That was part of my point. Without the possibility of choosing to do evil, God cannot be said to be morally good. If you disagree with this, that means you cannot accept Plantinga's Free Will Defense, which is founded on this very premise.
