Sentences with phrase «create free creatures»
But there is certainly nothing inherent in the standard free - will perspective that requires the FWT to hold that God's primary purpose for creating free creatures was to make it possible for God to «enjoy the value of knowing that those of us who developed moral character and spiritual virtue... did so freely» (ER 18).
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You said, «God chose to create creatures (humans) with limited free will.»
But if (5) is true, then it appears that God could have created a world inhabited by free creatures who perform moral good but no moral evil.
The nature of significant freedom dictates that God's creative choices are limited by the decisions which he knows free creatures would make if created (NN 169 - 84).
(6) God can not make a person (P) significantly free with respect to an action (A) and yet causally determine or bring it about that P go right with respect to A — i.e., to create creatures capable of moral good, God must create creatures capable of moral evil.
FIRST: The Creator created a world that had to potential to create, through free - will creatures, that could share in, and enjoy His attributes (made in His image).
What is created at that moment is a single new creature — a human person — with the capacity to become conscious and free «in the image and likeness of God».
He is thus against natural law theory but for a DCT in which God, by creating rational creatures, is bound to make their highest end a relationship with the divine persons, but free to pursue that end via any number of routes.
There is no other world that God might have created, not because he is bound by necessity, but because he is infinitely free, and so nothing can hinder him from expressing his essential and infinite goodness perfectly, in and through the freedom of creatures created to be the fellows of his eternal Son.
I agree but add: God had no alternative to willing that there be some free creatures, first because (pace Alston) the idea of not creating at all could occur (if I may say so) only to a confused creature, second because, as Peirce, Bergson, and Whitehead have seen, by a «creature» we can consistently mean only a lesser form of the freedom or creativity which in eminent form is deity.
Aware of a criticism sometimes leveled at the Scotist view, St Francis says of the Incarnation that «this sovereign sweetness was communicated perfectly outside itself to a creature» by God's own free and eternal choice, and this is the basis of the created order as God freely willed to make it.
They have challenged this form of the free will defense on several grounds, the most basic of which we have already mentioned: because the traditional doctrine of creation affirms that God creates the agent's free will, it ought to follow that the traditional God works the free will of the creatures, where this is inconsistent with the doctrine of freedom outlined above.
Many of these doctrines claim not only that God creates the new entity ex nihilo, but they also claim that God creates the creature's free decisions ex nihilo.
As for the second presupposition, that God can create creatures with a free will, I wholeheartedly agree.
Bob: It is not inconsistent for an omnipotent God to create creatures with free will.
But the claim that I had made, which Hasker quoted, was that the God of traditional free will theism could have created «creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we human beings enjoy, except that they would not really be free» (Process 74).
In a statement quoted by Hasker in his discussion of what he calls a «more subtle form» of the above argument (although it simply is my argument), I said that according to traditional free will theism it would have been possible for God to create «creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we human beings enjoy, except that they would not really be free» (Process 74).
In God, Power, and Evil in response to the traditional question as to why God created free beings, I said: «Of course, in process thought all actualities have some freedom, so that question has to be modified to ask, Why did God bring forth creatures with high degrees of freedom?»
You said, «A perfect being can certainly choose to relate to the free creatures he created.
Playing as Ori you begin the game with only the rudimentary skills of running and jumping but as you progress and skills accumulate, you begin to traverse the Nibel forest differently: You scuttle up a cliff face, flip off, Sein lets off a pulsating light explosion in the air sending a pus heavy poisonous blob in 10 different directions and you in 1 direction... backwards, you free fall down, dodge a lurid green rolling monster, launch yourself off the skittish rotating creature, shoot towards a lantern, catch an enemy projectile and propel yourself back up towards a platform (whatever you do remember to create a soul link and save).
In May 1999, Dr. Schiebert expanded to create the unique Creature Comforts Pet Hotel, the first full service luxury cage free pet hotel in San Diego County.
For Serralves, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané has conceived a living landscape for the Museum's central gallery in which a glass pavilion housing a garden and mimetic creatures, a set of free standing sculptures, a wall drawing, a hologram and windows that alter the experience of viewing are brought together to create a living ecosystem of transfigurations and metamorphosis, both real and symbolic.»
Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti's traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions.