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Theodicy without the Free Will Defense?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

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Isn't God Responsible for Evil?

McCarthur tends to lump all arminians and provisionist or non calvinist into one group. But we do not deny god's omnipotence or his omniscience. This is what is referred to as a straw man fallacy, where one distorts or misrepresents some one's argument in order to easier to defeat it. We'll never be able to divest god of responsibility for the existence of evil. He allowed it and designed it into this universe without being responsible for it. Free will trumps evil on god's value scale. I am so committed to free will that it's going to mean i have to allow evil.

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