Suppose God exists. What do I mean by ‘God’? Roughly, a being that is omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and perfectly loving/just. What would be an implication of God’s existence for how we lived our day-to-day lives? There are no doubt many implications, but it is worthwhile focusing on a specific implication: perhaps God’s existence would induce moral paralysis in humans. Why? For the very simple reason that God is perfectly loving and just. So we should expect that God would prevent those happenings in the world that aren’t loving and just. God wouldn’t God something like that to happen given His loving and just nature. It would thus stand to reason that, if God existed, then He would have good reasons to allow apparently bad and unjust events to happen. For example, by granting humans the enormously valuable ability to freely choose (free-will), God will thereby have granted us the opportunity to choose evil for the simple reason that freedom of the will (some of great value) cannot be had without someone misusing their free will.
It seems question begging to set E up as "bad or unjust". Surely, if it were bad or unjust, God would have reason to prevent it. Given that he does not, it is not bad or unjust. So I propose we change 1 to:
1. Take any event, E (including any you might naively feel is either bad or unjust) either God had a moral reason to prevent E, or He doesn’t.
Given that E only SEEMS to be immoral, PIP is irrelevant.
It seems question begging to set E up as "bad or unjust". Surely, if it were bad or unjust, God would have reason to prevent it. Given that he does not, it is not bad or unjust. So I propose we change 1 to:
1. Take any event, E (including any you might naively feel is either bad or unjust) either God had a moral reason to prevent E, or He doesn’t.
Given that E only SEEMS to be immoral, PIP is irrelevant.
Hey, check out this one. It tackles a similar issue essentially the duality of God and the human mind.
https://darrengabrylewicz.substack.com/p/stepping-into-inferno