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Episode 42, God, Morality, and Providence with TJ Mawson

The Reluctant Theologian Podcast

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I'm God, I've Got the Ability to Create or Not Create.

If i'm god, i've got the ability to create or not create. If i don't create anything, no obligations to anyone but myself. But if I create creatures of particular sorts, like like persons, they've got value to such an extent that i do have certain obligations to them. So so that's why god contingently has obligations. And thenwhen we get, when we pass forward to the incarnation of jesus, it is a pretty standard mediaeval view that any of the divine persons, god a omincarnat is ye. There is a lot of metaphysics going on there, leves i would make sure im following this wrong.

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