God’s hiddenness has prompted some theists to provide an explanation for God’s silence. Such hiddenness seems to be closely tied with disbelief, which is a form of sin for most Christians, so why has God allows such conditions to prevail?
Murray intends to show that some resoltions can be made to hiddenness.
A free-will theodicy claims that [...]
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Murray: Coercion and the Hiddenness of God
Posted in Ethics, Religion, free will, tagged divine hiddenness, free will, god, responsibility on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Locke- Free Will Not to Carry Out What One Wills
Posted in free will, tagged free will, Liberty, Locke on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
LOCKE= ‘SO FAR AS A MAN HAS POWER TO THINK OR NOT TO THINK, TO MOVE OR NOT TO MOVE, ACCORDING TO THE PREFERENCES OR DIRECTION OF HIS OWN MIND, SO FAR IS A MAN FREE’
REPLY- But ‘How does the mind prefer thinking of a thing to not thinking of it? [...]
