Hick suggests that God's goal for us could better be fulfilled in a world where God, after having made us free, would step in whenever we misused this freedom and prevent any harmful effects of our actions.
Hick suggests that God's goal for us could better be fulfilled in a world where God, after having made us free, would step in whenever we misused this freedom and prevent any harmful effects of our actions.
Our actions couldn't be right or wrong if they could produce no harm. In such a world, it wouldn't matter which way we acted -- and so our choices would be trivial and insignificant.
Hick suggests that God's goal for us could better be fulfilled in a world where God, after having made us free, would step in whenever we misused this freedom and prevent any harmful effects of our actions.
Our actions couldn't be right or wrong if they could produce no harm. In such a world, it wouldn't matter which way we acted -- and so our choices would be trivial and insignificant.