Interesting

[tallim]

If God can only act in a manner that is for good, how can he/she have free will. And can a creator without true free will grant this gift to his creations?

Any ideas?

Or are we all just doomed to play out our little puppet show whether there is or is not a creator?

Comments

[thinkstoomuch]

Rather easy, if there are multiple options at any time that are good, God gets to choose between them. If God was constrained to acting only in the maximally good manner, then it would be a problem re free will.

In any case, why can't a being deterministically grant free will to its creation?

PS this is a bit silly.

[illarion_ds]

AFAIK, nothing and noone ever said God (or any hypothetical divine being) was constrained to act in a manner that is for good.
"I am a vengeful and angry God!"

Free will on the other hand is a pet subject of mine, which I'll be happy to bend your ear about over Christmas :)

[tallim]

Yeah hehe having a fair few ciders then reading philosophy online was rather silly, oh and the theory was accounts for god choosing between any good course of action, the fact that the evil courses were not available means he or she could not exercise free will properly.

Yes I think about freewill a lot.... very very interesting subject

Might have been here where i staggered across that remark, may not be though... lol still interesting

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/