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" I should ask this: if God has made men such that in their free choices they sometimes prefer what is good and sometimes what is evil, why could he not have made men such that they always freely choose the good? If there is no logical impossibility in... "
The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology - Side 31
af Steven T Katz - 2007 - 320 sider
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God, Freedom, and Evil

Alvin Plantinga - 1977 - 132 sider
...containing moral good without permitting moral evil. J. L. Mackie (above, p. I2) states this objection: If God has made men such that in their free choices...inconsistent with his being both omnipotent and wholly good. 15 Now what, exactly, is Mackie's point here? This. According to the Free Will Defense, it is...
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God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God

Alvin Plantinga - 1990 - 300 sider
...occasion freely refrain from performing any evil actions. Here the contemporary spokesman is Mackie: If God has made men such that in their free choices...inconsistent with his being both omnipotent and wholly good.3 This objection is more serious than Flew's and must be dealt with more fully. The free will...
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On the Nature and Existence of God

Richard M. Gale - 1993 - 442 sider
...considering Mackie's following presentation of the theological-compatibilist-based objection: First I should query the assumption that second order evils...of this possibility is inconsistent with his being omnipotent and wholly good.27 It would seem that Mackie is appealing to the Leibnizian doctrine, called...
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Faith and Reason: Searching for a Rational Faith

Ronald H. Nash - 1994 - 300 sider
...COUNTERATTACK The most formidable objection to the Free Will Defense has been stated by JL Mackie: If God has made men such that in their free choices...inconsistent with his being both omnipotent and wholly good." 30 William J. Abraham, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:...
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How to Make Sense of God

J. N. M. Wijngaards, John N. Wijngaards - 1995 - 348 sider
...good on every occasion. God was not, then, faced with a choice between making innocent automata and beings who in acting freely, would sometimes go wrong:...inconsistent with his being both omnipotent and wholly good. 1 Well, if ever there was nonsense, it surely is this! What does freedom mean, if not the ability...
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The Puzzle of Evil

Peter Vardy - 1997 - 212 sider
...open to him the obviously better possibility of making beings who would act freely but would always do right. Clearly his failure to avail himself of this possibility is inconsistent with his being omnipotent and wholly good. (Evil and Omnipotence, p.209) If, Mackie argues, it is logically possible...
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The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader

Alvin Plantinga - 1998 - 392 sider
...create a world containing moral good without permitting moral evil. JL Mackie states this objection: If God has made men such that in their free choices...inconsistent with his being both omnipotent and wholly good.7 Now what, exactly, is Mackie's point here? This. According to the Free Will Defense, it is possible...
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Evolution and the Problem of Natural Evil

Michael Anthony Corey - 2000 - 386 sider
...appears to be nothing contradictory about this particular state of affairs, as JL Mackie has pointed out: If God has made men such that in their free choices...inconsistent with his being both omnipotent and wholly good.7 Mackie's argument is flawed, however, because he fails to distinguish between a logically possible...
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Hume’s Reflection on Religion

Miguel A. Badía Cabrera - 2001 - 358 sider
...innocent automata and making beings who. in acting freely, would sometunes go wrong: there was open to hun the obviously better possibility of making beings who would act freely but always go right (p. 209) - This is why Hume says thai this theory rob "second causes of all force or energy" (EHU,...
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First Philosophy: Fundamental Problems and Readings in Philosophy

Andrew Bailey - 2002 - 1002 sider
...cannot discuss this topic adequately here, although some of my criticisms will touch upon it. First I should query the assumption that second order evils...inconsistent with his being both omnipotent and wholly good. If it is replied that this objection is absurd, that the making of some wrong choices is logically...
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