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    It is not the case that Moral evil is entirely the fault of free creatures, not God.

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    • 1.God, as omniscient creator, foreknew every free act of evil that would occur before creating agents capable of those acts.
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    • 2.An agent who knowingly instantiates a causal order guaranteed to produce specific evils bears partial moral responsibility for those evils.
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    • 3.Therefore God's creative act cannot be entirely absolved of responsibility merely by the intervening freedom of creatures.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Mackie's 1955 argument holds that an omnipotent God could have created free beings who nonetheless always freely choose rightly.
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    • 2.If such a world is logically possible, God's failure to actualize it makes God culpable for moral evil that results from a lesser choice.
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    • 3.Plantinga's own 'transworld depravity' response depends on modal claims about counterfactuals of freedom that remain deeply contested in the literature.
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    • 1.Given libertarian freedom, our actions are up to us in that they are not brought about by independent events.
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    • 2.Moral evil owes its existence to our wills, not to God's will.
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