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Ep. 139 - Can We Hold Divine Ideas and Divine Simplicity Together? w/Dr. Thomas Ward

Parker's Pensées

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Why Can't God Just Make Stuff Up?

Parker: Why can't god just make stuff up? In your book, i argue that this is a kind of a failing to scribe god some perfection or honor that is probably due him. God perhaps has some intentional control over the type of thing he intends to think up. But a, he cannot intend to think up with any specificity anything he thinks up. And so it's no failure there. It's nose lack there.

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