Conatus: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

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to the interventionist conundrum:

Either:

God could have created a perfect world, but chose not to, for reasons which — to say the least — are not obvious. (Note here — according to the Christian faith, God may have made a perfect Heaven and may at some time make a perfect New Earth so this suggests perfection is possible.)

Or:

God had to create an imperfect world.

(Or: Perhaps some other option we’re not aware of.)

In which case:

Either:

God does not intervene, but just leaves things to work out however they will. (Although God knows what will happen, this is not the same as making them happen. Foreknowledge is not predestination.)

Or:

God chooses to intervene, in order to alleviate some of the consequences of an imperfect world.

In which case we are back to the problems of intervention discussed earlier.

There are some side issues that arise from these alternatives.

One thing that may throw us is the question of

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