slw, on June 3, 2010 at 4:18 am Said:
Jason,
How is it less problematic to believe there’s no moral problem with God creating the world knowing that sin would occur, since He can do what he wants (and whatever he does is perfect and good, and then believe that God allows (Armininians would argue cause) evil he could easily thwart for some other reason than his value for freewill. What would be his reason in your system: for his own glory, making his wrath known? How is that better? How doesn’t that make God a capricious God, arbitrarily frying ants under a magnifying glass for his own jollies?
http://arminianperspectives.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/fallacies-of-calvinist-apologetics-fallacy-8-calvinism-doesnt-charge-god-with-the-authorship-of-sin/#comment-4742
By contrast, the Arminian God merely buys a magnifying glass for the 5-year-old psychopath, then looks over his shoulder in mock horror as our junior psychopath fries the ants for his own jollies.
Well, 'who' made me do it then?
ReplyDeleteIf not God, nor the Devil nor me, then was it you?
Not much of a solution, is it?
ReplyDeleteThat line of reasoning reminds me of my Arminian friends who recoil angrily at the notion that "God creates certain people (the non-elect) for no other reason than to burn forever because having been predestined to be among the non-elect, they never had the chance to accept the Gospel."
Nevermind that even in the Arminian scheme God "foreknows" who will "accept or reject Christ", and therefore the same argument can be leveled against their position, to wit "God creates certain people with the full foreknowldge that they will ultimately reject Him, or fall away from the faith meaning they will burn forever."
Why hello Open Theism, we've been expecting you!
In Christ,
CD