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2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter
Edited from PhD
John S. Feinberg Sovereignty Theodicy/Defence: Eight Ways God Could Eliminate Evil (PhD Edit)
Twitter version I
Eighth, Feinberg notes that God could supernaturally prohibit wrong human actions. Feinberg (1994: 134). This would greatly change life as it is known. Feinberg (1994: 135).
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Twitter version II
Feinberg thought God prohibiting wrong human actions could leave the world non-functional, and not a better world than the one in existence, Feinberg (1994: 135).
Twitter version III
Feinberg deduces that if God did have to miraculously intervene to prohibit all human immorality, God would seem unwise. Feinberg (1994: 135).
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June 10, 2021
Unwise, is a good point. If God was going to prohibit wrong human actions, at least all wrong actions, I would like to add, as God allows some and prevents others I reason; why not instead create human beings or human-like beings that would never commit wrong actions and therefore never disobey God?
In my linked PhD thesis (MPhil less so) and within the website archives I opine on why God willingly created human beings that would fall. But, in short, the answer is for the chosen, the elect (Romans 8, Ephesians 1), to be through regeneration (John 3, Titus 3) covered within the applied atoning and resurrection work (completed post-mortem with and at the second advent) of Jesus Christ as justified and sanctified people. This was part of God's eternal plans before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1, Revelation 13).
(Verses not exhaustive)
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FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1994) The Many Faces of Evil, Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House.
FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (2001) No One Like Him, John S. Feinberg (gen.ed.), Wheaton, Illinois, Crossway Books.
FLEW, ANTONY (1955) ‘Divine Omnipotence and Human Freedom’, in Antony Flew and A. MacIntrye (eds.), New Essays in Philosophical Theology, London, SCM, in Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap (eds.), A Modern Introduction To Philosophy, New York, The Free Press.
FLEW, ANTONY (1955) ‘Theology and Falsification’, in Antony Flew and A. MacIntrye (eds.), New Essays in Philosophical Theology, London, SCM, in Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap (eds.), A Modern Introduction To Philosophy, New York, The Free Press.
FLEW, ANTONY (1983)(1996) ‘The Falsification Challenge’, in Antony Flew and A. MacIntrye (eds.), New Essays in Philosophical Theology, in Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger (eds.), Philosophy of Religion, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
FLEW, ANTONY, R.M. HARE, AND BASIL MITCHELL (1996) ‘The Debate on the Rationality of Religious Belief’, in L.P. Pojman (ed.), Philosophy, The Quest for Truth, New York, Wadsworth Publishing Company.
FLEW, ANTONY AND A.MACINTRYE (1999) ‘Philosophy of Religion’, in Alan Richardson and John Bowden (eds.), A New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Kent, SCM Press Ltd.
GRIFFIN, DAVID RAY (1976) God, Power, and Evil, Philadelphia, The Westminster Press.
MACKIE, J.L. (1955)(1996) ‘Evil and Omnipotence’, in Mind, in Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger (eds.), Philosophy of Religion, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
MACKIE, J.L. (1971)(1977)(2002) ‘Evil and Omnipotence’, in The Philosophy of Religion, in Alvin C. Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil, Grand Rapids. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
