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    A definition of justice that renders all these outcomes '... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Divine will, decree, or law alone cannot be what constitutes right and wrong.

    A definition of justice that renders all these outcomes 'just' is meaningless — the words 'right' and 'wrong' would lose all significance.

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    If the mere Will, Decree, or Law of God be said absolutely to constitute Right and Wrong, then are these latter words of no significancy at all. For thus if each part of a Contradiction were affirm’d for Truth by the supreme Power, they wou’d consequently become true. Thus if one Person were decreed to suffer for another’s fault, the Sentence wou’d be just and equitable. And thus, in the same manner, if arbitrarily, and without reason, some Beings were destin’d to endure perpetual Ill, and other

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