tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post2593251891945430522..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: Anonymous Asks (72)Dr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-32747769955848105382019-12-25T15:42:40.315-05:002019-12-25T15:42:40.315-05:00Since no one picked up on that ...
I have been ou...<b>Since no one picked up on that ...</b><br /><br />I have been out of the country, and IC does not have access to the comments unless I email them to him. <i>Mea culpa.</i>Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346761712248157930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-20538451650605164602019-12-25T15:03:47.211-05:002019-12-25T15:03:47.211-05:00Since no one picked up on that let me be the philo...Since no one picked up on that let me be the philosopher. <br /><br />It seems to me that it is unnecessary to postulate that freedom requires the need for being able to make an evil choice and therefore requires for evil to exist. After all it is clear that choices are not strictly only binary. Evidently God has allowed for approaching problems, etc., in a multitude of ways many of which are not necessarily optimal but that will still get the job done. And many might be better, more efficient or effective than others but will get the job done. Hence there is the freedom to choose, signifying a free human being, without having to postulate the necessity for having evil in mind and available.<br /><br />Now you might want to argue more narrowly that the evil you have in mind is the one choice of not wanting to have anything to do with the idea of a God as he is presented in the Bible, well then there is indeed a majority of evil in the world. But that is not needed for a definition of freedom.<br />Qmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-61392456024938531232019-12-23T13:19:01.486-05:002019-12-23T13:19:01.486-05:00This then seems like a routine approach when you w...This then seems like a routine approach when you want to create a free being. The angles as well had a choice (although they probably did not eat apples). The one thing though that generally is mentioned is the Lord's prayer ... and lead us not into temptation but ... and so on. This seems pretty difficult since, once an environment exists for good and evil influences to coexist side by side as on planet earth, you cannot avoid exposure. This suggest a conundrum (which the philosopher might have an answer for) namely, does it not justify evil in order to guarantee the existence of freedom? And would that be fair?<br />Qmannoreply@blogger.com