God’s Moral Perfection as His Beneficent Love. Comment on Craig (2023). Is God’s Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love? Religions 14: 140
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William Lane Craig insists that I am wrong in reducing God’s moral goodness to his beneficent aim of drawing all people himself. For Craig, goodness, best conceived terms righteousness, must also include retributive justice toward the wicked, who deserve punishment they receive. My response is Craig’s argument rests on two assumptions about value, neither which, argue, Christian theists have good reason affirm.
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عنوان ژورنال: Religions
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2077-1444']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14091205