Civ,
You are one of the resident PB logicians.

I agree, God isn't "off the hook" primarily because he was never "on" to be baited. God is free to do many things he does not give us the freedom to perform. He is in a class by himself. He has morally sufficient justification for ordaining the sinful (and free) acts of responsible men. They all conduce to a maximal degree of the exhibition of his "holiness, justice, goodness, and truth." His glory is most fully manifested in this world he willed. That this world contains wrongs yet to be righted is no argument against his character. God has one will for a "bare" act, the sinner has an opposite intent, Gen 50:20.

If the argument went: only in this life should all wrongs be righted, they are not, ergo God is unjust--then perhaps the unbeliever had his point. But again, he's assuming the validity of his own narrow perceptions, that not the slightest "evils" are ever justified, nor permissible to serve higher-order goods, and that he is an accurate judge of "evils" for everyone.

So many fallacies...

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