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ISSUES:. God’s perfection and the idea of evil Omniscient Foreknowledge vs. Causality Omnipotent Strong vs. Weak Benevolent Good vs. Evil Man’s freedom Cause of evil. GOD’S FOREKNOWLEDGE & FREEDOM. FREEDOM GOD’S FOREKNOWLEDGE All knowing: future = accordance/otherwise Freedom?

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  1. ISSUES: • God’s perfection and the idea of evil • Omniscient • Foreknowledge vs. Causality • Omnipotent • Strong vs. Weak • Benevolent • Good vs. Evil • Man’s freedom • Cause of evil

  2. GOD’S FOREKNOWLEDGE & FREEDOM • FREEDOM • GOD’S FOREKNOWLEDGE • All knowing: future = accordance/otherwise • Freedom? • Responsible? • Punishment? • CONCLUSION: • Either: • God is omniscient but immoral, • He is benevolent but ignorant.

  3. If God knew millions of years before Judas was born that he would betray Jesus, how could God send Judas to hell for his sins?

  4. SOLUTION • EVIL IN RELATION TO FREEDOM • Lack of goodness • GOD? • HUMAN FREE WILL • TIME & GOD

  5. To say “God knew millions of years before Judas’s birth that he would betray Jesus” is to make the human error of believing that God is in time.

  6. PROBLEM OF GOOD AND EVIL • Manicheanism: • Reality is struggling = between the principle of light (Good) and the principle of darkness (Evil). • the world. • The soul: the good • Body: evil.

  7. Evil feature of reality? • an incompleteness, a privation (deprivation). • Evil is simply the lack of being, just as coldness is truly a lack of heat. (lack of goodness) • Now, does evil really exist? COSMIC SCALE OF EBING

  8. “REAL’ NOTION OF PERFECTION IS FAR REMOVED FROM HUMAN POWERS OF UNDERSTANDING (FINITUDE)

  9. God is omniscient but immoral, He is benevolent but ignorant. • Knowledge does not imply causality. • God does not compel future events to happen by His foreknowledge. • Since there is no direct causal relation: • between foreknowledge and a person’s choice • GOD’S JUSTICE: GOOD?

  10. ARE WE REALLY FREE IF WE ONLY CHOOSE THE GOOD?

  11. FREEDOM: MULTIPLE CHOICE: • ONE CHOICE

  12. SIN & FREEWILL • WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF FREEWILL? • Intended for sinning? • Human will is intended for the good. • Man cannot choose the good without having the ability to choose.

  13. SUMMARY: • The will of the Omnipotent is never defeated; and His will never can be evil • Because even when it inflicts evil it is just, and what is just is certainly not evil. • Man can freely choose evil in his fallen state and that he is responsible for doing so. • By acting badly, the damned are actually accomplishing God’s will. (A Just God)

  14. PASCAL'S BELIEF IN GOD

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