Must God Create the Best Available Creatures?

Alvin Plantinga rightly challenged J. L. Mackie's assumption that an omnipotent God can directly create just any possible world. However, Mackie also assumed that God, given the option, must create a person who would freely choose rightly rather than one who would freely choose wrongly. Instead...

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Main Author: Boone, Mark J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: EPS 2021
In: Philosophia Christi
Year: 2021, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 271-289
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBC Doctrine of God
NBE Anthropology
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