Arguments that God would not take a specific future action
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If evil and suffering exist forever beside God, then God will not make evil and suffering new
A Deity would likely exclude believers whose faith is based on prudential wagering from infinite reward.
A divine revelation must be discrete and available only to a few people at first.
Counterproductive human freedom would violate divine intention
Distinguishing the evaluation of worlds from the evaluation of actions allows resistance to the inference that God must always actualize the best possible world.
God could not have created each mind with a complete set of innate ideas.
God does not perform miracles
God does not save all men because doing so would require ways of willing that are unwise
God might have had reason to create a cosmos in which Divine existence is not overwhelmingly obvious
God would not create mind-independent external objects to cause ideas in us
Gregory of Rimini did not believe God can change the past
Human wickedness does not always require divine punishment.
If ECT is true, then it is not that God will make all things new
If God were to exist, miracles would not occur.
If there were no single best possible world, God would have created no world at all
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.
It does not follow from God's perfect judgment combined with his infinite power to create that God should create the world in a particular way.
It would be unreasonable for God to permit sexual acts only in a manner in which they cannot actually be performed
The delays of divine punishment do not speak against the existence of divine providence.
The fact that all first-order value is included in the actualized world does not exhaust the reasons bearing on God's choice of action.
The idea that God could place objects within absolute space with one orientation rather than another is not incoherent, but God would lack a reason for doing so.
The theodicy establishes not only what errors God can allow but also what errors God cannot allow
The theologians' objection that if the continuous is potentially divisible infinitely, there must be a power such as God that can actualize all the potential divisions, contains an inherent contradiction.
Any act of God actualizing a world is morally surpassable
Christ's atoning work is sufficient to pay for all human sins
ECT has evil and suffering exist forever beside God
God can save everyone
God would save everyone if He could
If ECT is true, God will not make evil and suffering new
Actualize
To make something real or bring it into existence; to turn a possibility into reality.
Conflate
To mistakenly treat two different things as if they were the same thing.
God
An eternal, personal being of maximal power, knowledge, and goodness who created the universe
God (in philosophical arguments)
In philosophy, usually refers to an all-powerful, all-knowing being who is considered the creator of reality—often discussed as the being capable of choosing which version of the world actually exists.
Higher-value worlds
Possible realities that would be better or contain more good things—like a world with less suffering or more happiness than another possible world.
Inherent contradiction
A logical impossibility built into an idea itself—when something is logically true and false at the same time, making it impossible to be right.
Potential
Something that could happen or exist, but hasn't actually happened or been made real yet—it's a possibility waiting to become actual.
The best world
The possible reality that would be superior to all others—containing the maximum amount of good and the minimum amount of harm.
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