RE: The free will argument demonstrates that christians don't understand free will.
April 29, 2014 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2014 at 12:42 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
Not quite Esq. Theists (or at least Christian and Muslim theists) say that the reason God had to allow for evil was because unless one can legitimately choose to do good, it is not moral. Put more clearly, they're saying that if one's actions are determined, morality looses all meaning. Hence, if God wanted a universe with actual moral goodness in it, it must necessarily allow for the agents to choose to do evil too. In other words, they're claiming a specific kind of free will - called libertarian free will - is needed for morality.
There are problems with this I think, but we should be clear on what they're saying first. :p
There are problems with this I think, but we should be clear on what they're saying first. :p
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