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    Alternatively, the perfection of God's agency need not be... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Divine perfection may not require moral goodness of the kind that requires libertarian freedom.

    Alternatively, the perfection of God's agency need not be understood as moral perfection.

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    If one insists upon a libertarian account of free will in which to be free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise, then the connection between freedom and moral assessability entails that God’s lack of freedom to do evil precludes God’s being perfectly morally good. It is unclear how damaging that outcome would be. If one is convinced that moral goodness is a great-making feature that God must exhibit, then there is a deep problem for perfect being theology, as it

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