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    It is not the case that God's nature as perfectly rational entails that divine action is always oriented toward preserving and perfecting rational agency, never suppressing it.

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    • 1.History shows instances of justified constraints on agency (preventing harm); perfect rationality might similarly permit intervention.
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    • 2.Divine rationality may transcend human rationality; assuming our concepts of agency-perfection map onto God's goals is unfounded.
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    • 3.Religious traditions describe God limiting human knowledge and capability; if these are consistent with perfection, the claim's premise fails.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Rational agency is intrinsically valuable; suppressing it violates the very perfection that grounds God's nature.
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    • 2.A perfectly rational being would recognize that coerced compliance is inferior to freely chosen alignment with goodness.
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    • 3.God's creative act itself presupposes valuing rational creatures; abandoning this valuing would contradict divine consistency.
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