God, Evil, And, Human Learning: A Critique and Revision of by Fred Berthold
By Fred Berthold
Revises the conventional unfastened will safeguard concerning the lifestyles of evil on the earth of a loving God.
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They are no more worthy of redemption than any others. The question 28 God, Evil, and Human Learning then arises with urgency: why does not God extend his mercy and grace to all humans? 26 While it may be just to punish those whose acts of free will are evil, it is perverse and reprehensible that God should punish (and with such ferocity) those who have no free will and who cannot not sin. Given calvinism, then, there is no way to refute the attacks of Mackie and Flew. To do so we need to insist that the sort of free will, which is requisite to citizenship in the Kingdom of God, includes an autonomy that is incompatible with the views of Mackie and Flew or Calvin.
The answer given by Calvin (see p. 28) implies that God has a character which is morally repugnant! It will be possible to give further support to the criticisms of the traditional accounts of the Adam and Eve defection after a more adequate concept of free will has been developed in chapter 6. Though these criticisms imply a need for revisions of the traditional free will defense, there is a further question of whether revisions can be made while still remaining within the parameters of the Christian faith.
I say that the view which has been accepted in the mainline of the tradition has seemed adequate to its supporters. However, we shall see that this view is far from clear and it is very doubtful that it serves the purpose of reconciling the notion of divine omnipotence with the sort of free will necessary to the free will defense. Nor will this majority of free will defenders be pleased with another point I want to make: namely, that even with this commonly accepted notion of the limitation on God’s power, the free will defender is still left with serious residual problems.