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#21 Free will and the problem of evil

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Problem With Free Will

There isn't an eight moral sense, even though that does vary from culture to culture in certain interesting ways. And one of the things I've tried to argue in the Gifford lectures is that there are certain things like justice and spirituality which have a certain draw across cultures and across time. But equally, all of them are puzzling because we know that justice matters, but we all are inclined to bend it when it's in our own favor. That's part of the problem of being human in this world. The other problem about free will is that however much you use a free will defence for saying, therefore, we humans mess stuff up, maybe that's an inevitable result of the way

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