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Replies to Free Will Theodicy

  1. This doesn’t explain natural evil, only moral evil.
  2. Premise (1) is false: An all-powerful, all-knowing God could make free beings yet know what they would do and know that they would never choose bad stuff.
  3. (4) at most avoids the logical problem of evil. The evidential problem of evil remains: Maybe God was right to allow there to be some evil (if premises 1 and 3 are true), but not the amount (and kind) of evil we find in this world.


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