Alternate world histories with different evils and compensatory goods. If someone who’s elect in this world is reprobate in a possible world, or if someone who’s reprobate in this world is elect in a possible world, then that individual difference will, in turn, lead to alternate world histories. “There is no cause internal to the agent that leads God to choose one agent rather than another.”
I’ve argued the contrary at length on my blog. “As for the arbitrariness claim, I've argued that at length in my blog.” You can’t just assert that it’s damaging. You need to demonstrate how your extension is damaging to the Reformed position. Merely describing the Reformed position doesn’t refute it. “Two, if you do attempt to extend the analogy by including wickedness then I can extend it further by including the divine decree.”īut you need to do more than that. What is important is that the analogy is sustained at the relevant point.”īy disregarding the moral character of the reprobate, your analogy breaks down at a critical juncture. Rather, it was pointing out two things (my eye rolls are pretty cool in that they can make multiple points): first, every analogy breaks down at some point. “The eye roll wasn't intended as an argument. Ii) Election and reprobation aren’t “arbitrary.” Delete I) Why do you believe that God everyone? What’s your evidence for that claim? It can’t be Scripture, since you routinely reject Biblical passages which run counter to omnibenevolence.Īnd it can’t be experience, for the disparate distribution of weal and woe in our world doesn’t suggest that God loves everyone. Given that I believe this transworld depravity is an excellent explanation for why not all are saved.”
The answer? Because I believe God loves all rather than arbitrarily selecting to love (and so elect) some and hate (and so reprobate) others. “And this pushes us back to the question of why I should think transworld depravity exists. He’s not benevolent to those who lose out in your utilitarian cost/benefit analysis. God is still not benevolent to *everyone*. Which fails to show how God is omnibenevolent in that situation.
#ARMINIUS D GOD ROLL FREE#
If there is no world of libertarianly free creatures in which all creatures choose God then he can choose to create one of the worlds in which not all those creatures choose him.” Just describing the Reformed position doesn’t amount to a rational objection. If you’re going to raise that objection, you need to explain why that’s a problem. (eyeroll)”Īn eye roll is not an argument, Randal. “Yes, it also disregards the fact that Jones is wicked because Bob determined that he’d be wicked by Bob’s determining decree.
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