Freewill Defence

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Freewill Defence Richard Swinburne
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It is necessary for God to give us free will
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Free will necessarily entails the possibility of
evil
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The less he allows men to bring about large
scale horrors, the less freedom and
responsibility he gives.
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Without large scale suffering we are asking that
God should make a toy world, a world where things
matter, but not very much
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A God who intervened to prevent the large scale
horrors would compromise the gift of freedom and
remove human responsibility
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Limited life is essential so we can have genuine
responsibility for our actions
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Death limits life and the chances each life
contains,
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The world needs to contain natural laws that can
cause death, however painful this may be
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Therefore death is explainable
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