Ep. 78 Divine Simplicity and Modal Collapse, Still Valid, Always Has Been
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
The Moral Collapse Objection - Is God's Intentional Actions Built Into Classical Theism?
The idea that god has intentions and goals, that's just built into classical theisms commitment to god's perfect rationality. If you deny that god performs intentional actions, then you are rejecting the way that classical christian theists have actually articulated basic doctrine. This entire discussion of the discussion of the atonement in the catholic scholastic tradition is based on this assumption. And if god intended to bring about something else, he could have given some reason for doing it. So what i've just said, let me think again about that moto claps object here: The whole idea of god acting for a reason is just making god too human. It's making god too much like us
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