Sentences with phrase «free creatures»

Indeed, for any significantly free creature there is a possible world in which that creature is significantly free but always does what is right.
How much power would it take to guide and direct a universe filled with free creatures?
Therefore, it is morally justified to allow evil so free creatures can freely choose good.
Consequently, tragedy is not imposed upon creation as part of the will of God but rather inevitably arises from the multiplicity of free creatures as conflicts between noncompossible goods (See CS 312).
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 uniquely Judaeo - Christian approach is that evil is secondary to goodness, emerging from the abuse of goodness by free creatures.
First, for the process theist the natural order has value in itself and not just as a sphere in which free creatures can grow to moral maturity (as the Basingers imply for the classical theist).
Even an omnipotent and loving God would not create free creatures who would always choose to do good — for to ensure that, God would have to deprive them of genuine freedom (which includes the freedom to do wrong).
For there is certainly nothing inconsistent in the idea of a given set of free creatures always freely choosing to do what is right — i.e., it is surely possible that there exist a world containing perfectly virtuous, free persons.
This first principle of the chaos theory simply shows that when it comes to God's direct involvement in the actions of free creatures in the world, God has a policy of non-intervention.
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).
There are plenty of possible worlds where free creatures do no wrong, but it could be that God might not have actualized any of those possible worlds (NN 168 - 84).
And heaven without destruction would be a place without free creatures making choices.
In fact, Bonhoeffer declares that «God is worshiped first by the earth, «21 which might raise questions about worship as an act of free creatures toward a Creator.
On her nightly rounds, she decides to free the creature from his water - tank lockdown, enlisting the help of her fellow cleaning woman and workplace protector, Zelda (Octavia Spencer).
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What I do think is this: there are many possible worlds God could not have actualized; and it is possible (I know of no reason to think it is true) that among these worlds are all the worlds in which there are free creatures who always do only what is right.
Tragedy occurs because of the incompatibility of a multitude of free creatures each freely pursuing its «creaturely answer.»
Pike's scenario is obviously designed to show the mechanics of DP2 — i.e., the delegation of power to free creatures — but also the direct complicity of God in the evil these agents do.
That this is so, furthermore, is a necessary truth; so I do not think it is possible that there be free creatures some of whom go wrong with respect to at least one action in every world in which they are significantly free.
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.
Man was destructive, but he also had creative possibilities as a free creature.
(1) Man is in a unique position between nature and spirit as a free creature.
Man, the free creature of God, who misuses his freedom, must know God's forgiveness.
Is it the kind of power that must be in absolute control of every detail, OR is it the kind of the power that is so wise and powerful, that it can truly give away power to free creatures?
(332) And «as intelligent and free creatures,» they «have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love.
It was, as a matter of fact, the impact of the Judaeo - Christian tradition on Western civilization that is chiefly responsible for the awareness so prevalent among us today that history presses forward toward novel achievements, that the future is open and full of promise, that man is a free creature whose own decisions and deeds enter into the shaping of tomorrow's world.
God's original plan was always to interact with his free creatures and react to the free choices they would make.
A perfect being can certainly choose to relate to the free creatures he created.
You said, «A perfect being can certainly choose to relate to the free creatures he created.
She released the creature from its chains with a Relashio command, and the group hung on as the freed creature climbed out of the underground cavern, and sent several goblins to their deaths on a derailed track car.
Hope must travel to these islands to free their creatures and acquire the weapons she will need to defeat her ultimate enemy.
avoids building up towns or farms and instead sends you out on an idle adventure, smashing blocks and jelly as you free creatures and earn gold.
Your aim is to free some creatures, the Bumbi, who have been trapped by their wicked brother inside some impenetrable boxes controlled by a sophisticated hydraulic system; the tremendous hydroblock.
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