May 20, 2008
dmitry chernikov said...“So, when you see X number of murders committed per 100,000 people, you say to yourself, ‘I guess God wanted a world with (exactly) so many murders!’ Is it possible that God would prefer fewer murders/denominations and that it is precisely our job to minimize the number of them (to the extent compatible with other goals)?”Hi Dmitry,There is no yes or no answer to your question. ...
Apr 12, 2008
Some LFWers (and some atheists) here raised the objection of theological fatalism for the Calvinist (though we escape that by denyingt eh LFW premise).We raised the objection that exhaustive, traditionally conceived views of God's foreknowledge actually puts the LFWer in the predicament.They danced around that with the Boethian shuffle.We shoot back with the Dr. Sudduth bazooka."It seems that divine timelessness, rather than providing a way to reconcile foreknowledge ...