Griggsy

Originally posted by Griggsy

I f in Heaven there is free will ,yet no evil, why not on earth?Why the tests as even John Hick acknowledges in " The Encyclopedia of Philosophy?"If Yeshua was perfect man and had free will, why not the rest of us?If his father has free will, why not we. Anyway, there is too much evil to play the Hick's soul-making game, his all or nothing fallacy.We atheists do not play that straw man of Hick. But if if Heaven is Heavenly, then it is the theist who makes the all paradise play and so, again I ask, why not heaven on earth in the first place and not all these evils?[Hick also makes the straw man play when he asserts we atheists would contradictorily die for others, in that his straw man is egoism.] Michael Martin composed this argument and Fr. Meslier long ago. I merely emphasize it as the definitive refutation of the free will argument. [See all of Martin's books on atheism and religion even if they require close attention.] Perhaps, this god has free will and does commit evil in that it allows evil on earth and perhaps on other planets.Zorathrustra surely will respond in force as he is the atheologist here!I just try to give others ideas to respond to, not as final answers necessarily. Fr. Griggs rests in his Socratic ignorance and humble naturalism.