Episode 42, God, Morality, and Providence with TJ Mawson
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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Do You Have a Word for Bodging?
One bodges an action, on my understanding of the term, if one performs it under an intended description that it doesn't in the end end up meeting. On open theism, god almost certainly bodges quite a lot and this makes him less perfect in power - i'd say he's omniscience and perfect goodness. All these three are in hazard because they're all matters of contingency and uncertainty for him. And so to me it seems pretty obvious that being able to bodge things is itself a liability. When i became unable to bodge making a baked alaska in any way, as i was in my thought experiment, i became more powerful relative to the domain of making baked
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