tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post181813259650149679..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: New players, old playbookRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-86775241707536055542009-08-08T08:38:14.798-04:002009-08-08T08:38:14.798-04:00Victor Reppert said...
"The similarity seems...Victor Reppert said...<br /><br />"The similarity seems to be that a God (or rather, an omnipotent being) who did certain things would be open to moral criticism and not worthy of worship."<br /><br />The similarity is that atheists raise the same sorts of objections to the God of Biblical theism which some Arminians raised to the God of Reformed theism. If you think the God of Reformed theism is repugnant, it's hard to draw the line there. Why not find the Yahweh equally repugnant? <br /><br />But if you choose to press the comparison in detail, then according to Arminianism, God created this world in full knowledge of all the horrendous evils which it would contain–although it lay within his power to prevent those events by choosing not to create this world. And perhaps by choosing to create a world with fewer evils or none at all. <br /><br />After all, if human beings enjoy libertarian freewill, then, presumably, there are human beings who freely choose good rather than evil. Why not create a world which instantiates only good choices?stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-83805856461190616852009-08-07T20:10:33.457-04:002009-08-07T20:10:33.457-04:00The similarity seems to be that a God (or rather, ...The similarity seems to be that a God (or rather, an omnipotent being) who did certain things would be open to moral criticism and not worthy of worship. Dawkins makes these claims about God in general, Arminians sometimes make such claims against a God who would predestine some to everlasting punishment. Some rhetoric is similar, but the claims are vastly different. <br /><br />In order to avoid being fitted into this comparison, a person would have to hold that no omnipotent being, however wrong his deeds may seem even in the light of eternity, could ever be considered to be acting wrongly. I think you guys denied theological volunarism in the course of our original 2008 dialogues on Calvinism, and quoted Sudduth to the effect that Calvin was not a voluntarist either. But if you're not a voluntarist, then there is at least some possible omnipotent being that would not be worthy of worship if he existed, and instead would be subject to justified moral criticism. No?Victor Repperthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-20270478444430514552009-08-05T03:09:24.006-04:002009-08-05T03:09:24.006-04:00Wow. Dicky-Dawk sure knows a lot of fancy adjectiv...Wow. Dicky-Dawk sure knows a lot of fancy adjectives!Mike Westfallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06944727980772754938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-4063089407956444592009-08-04T21:54:20.834-04:002009-08-04T21:54:20.834-04:00Steven said:
Oh. Is he at school? Or maybe he'...Steven said:<br /><br /><b>Oh. Is he at school? Or maybe he's got a job or something?</b><br /><br />I can neither confirm nor deny that he's been recruited by a shadowy but powerful "company" to train future undercover super agents at an undisclosed underground location for the purposes of infiltrating infidel headquarters and other seemingly nefarious but actually patriotic acts of tremendous courage.<br /><br />For me to comment further would be neither wise nor safe.Patrick Chanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16095377877712197984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-65803803642998711312009-08-04T20:12:07.938-04:002009-08-04T20:12:07.938-04:00Oh. Is he at school? Or maybe he's got a job o...Oh. Is he at school? Or maybe he's got a job or something?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-43537720893114141072009-08-04T20:10:38.980-04:002009-08-04T20:10:38.980-04:00He doesn't have time to blog anymore.He doesn't have time to blog anymore.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-4770661406385186212009-08-04T20:06:02.375-04:002009-08-04T20:06:02.375-04:00Victor Reppert said Paul Manata doesn't post h...Victor Reppert said Paul Manata doesn't post here anymore; is that true? What happened? Did I miss some "good-bye" post?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com