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Greg Welty rejects Plantinga’s idea that God cannot create a
world containing moral good and no moral evil,[1]
and raises the objection that God brought Christ into the world as a sinless
human being.[2]
Welty’s point here is that every human being
could have therefore been sinless[3] and the world could
contain good and no evil with significantly free human beings that would not
commit wrong actions.[4]
I have a similar objection to Welty’s.[5] Within my theodicy, I reason that God could
have, if he wished, made significantly free human beings, or human like beings
who would have been perfectly morally good and would not commit wrong actions. God’s choice not to create such beings, in my
mind is not a sign of a lack of power, or moral failure, but rather the use of
his own perfect and significantly free will for good purposes.
March 10, 2014
Note as well, the angels of God not fallen are deduced to be
significantly free and have not committed wrong actions (Revelation 12).
I reason significantly free beings can made perfect, holy and good gaining knowledge of
good and evil and do not choose evil
and do not require the option to choose evil.
Therefore, fallen humanity as is and the atonement and
resurrection work of Christ as applied to those chosen and elect in Christ is
part of God’s sovereign plans. As is the culminated Kingdom of God with the new
heaven and new earth (Revelation 20-22).
PLANTINGA, ALVIN C. (1977)(2002) God, Freedom, and Evil, Grand Rapids,
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
PLANTINGA, ALVIN C. (1982) The Nature of Necessity, Oxford,
Clarendon Press.
PLANTINGA, ALVIN C. (2000) Warranted Christian Belief, Oxford,
Oxford University Press.
WELTY, GREG (1999) ‘The Problem
of Evil’, in Greg Welty PhD, Fort Worth, Texas.Philosophy Department, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~jad/welty/probevil.htm
