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    Occasionalism's attribution of all causal efficacy to God... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Vulgar (second) causes are merely occasions upon which God produces effects according to established methods and laws.

    Occasionalism's attribution of all causal efficacy to God makes God the direct author of evil acts, undermining divine moral perfection.

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    • 1.If God directly causes all events including evil acts, God bears full causal responsibility for those acts' moral character.
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    • 2.A morally perfect being cannot be the direct cause of evil acts, as this would constitute performing or willing evil.
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    • 3.Occasionalism commits to God as the sole causal agent, leaving no coherent way to absolve God of authorship of evil.
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    • 1.Causing an act and being morally responsible for it are distinct: God can cause a creature's action while the creature bears moral responsibility.
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    • 2.Evil requires corrupted will or intention; God causing physical motions that constitute evil acts need not involve God's evil intention.
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    • 3.This objection assumes libertarian agency is necessary for moral responsibility, which occasionalists reject in favor of compatibilist accounts.
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