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    Challenges→In a no-best-world scenario, if world-value exhausts God's reasons for acting, God never does what God has most reason to do, and thus God's action is never supremely morally good.

    From a deliberative perspective, God must have more reason to realize a world with more value.

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    If we think that the evaluation of worlds is distinct from the evaluation of actions, then there is room to resist the move from (3) to (4), and this is indeed the standard point at which to resist. One might object that this resistance is bound to come to nothing. A world is a maximal state of affairs; everything that is morally relevant, and thus can give God reason to choose to actualize one world over another, is included in its value. So it of course follows that, from the deliberative pers

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