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    Therefore, whichever world God actualizes, God could have... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→In a 'no best world' scenario, God is not perfectly good.

    Therefore, whichever world God actualizes, God could have actualized a morally better one.

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    This possibility has been most intensively discussed with respect to ‘no best world’ scenarios. Say that God ‘actualizes a world’ when some maximal state of affairs obtains as a result of God’s choosing to create or choosing to refrain from creating. (Whether God actualizes a world is thus not an open question; God actualizes some world, and the only questions are whether it will include items other than God and if so, which ones.) Suppose that there are infinitely many possible worlds, each of

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