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'J. L Mackie Introduction Mackie’s argu ment The proposed limitination to be discussed and Mackie’s retort to it is the claim that ‘ deplorable is due to hu spell isolated pass on’ and as such it can non be attributed to graven image. pestiferous should instead be attributed to the free actions of individuals, the power of which has been empower upon them by God. While it is acknowledged that there subsists evil in the world, as a result of some(prenominal) human free depart, it is claimed that exemption of will is a more of import ingenuous than any result evil. Through God allowing such freedom, He has at rest His ‘wholly good’ requirement.\r\nCreating men who always assume good Mackie’s first criticism of this ascendent is that if God was omnipotent and he created men so that they would favour choosing good over evil, why did he not create them such that they would always drive good? The obvious response to this cla im is that to bound man’s actions in such a way is to critically undermine freedom of the will; to demand that man always choose one and provided(a) way whether it be in the promotion of good or evil is still to control his will and deprive him of his freedom and autonomy. Paradox of Omnipotence Adequate resolve\r\nFor Mackie, an adequate solution is one that if adopted the sign problem does not arise for you, however the solution may have raised other problems. The only discussed solution that does not hold God liable for evil in the world is the compatibilist burn up to free will. Upon formulating this solution the two major issues are on the indication of omnipotence and freedom. Omnipotence has been revealed to be an almost meaningless term by way of the conundrumes that it gives rise to, such as the ability or inability of an omnipotent God to make rules or animals that restrict its own powers.\r\nThe interpretation discussed and ultimately the proposal that gav e rise to a compatibilist approach was that proposed by Mackie and so there is little that he could criticise about this part of the argument. Conclusion Mackie’s argument that God could have made men always choose good undermines the most valuable good which is freedom of the will. His claim that this implies that it must consequently be a logical necessity for man to choose wrong instead of good is not accurate, for it is sufficient to be a logical surmise for man to choose wrong.\r\nOn this interpretation freedom is maintained, however the strongest objection arises with the omnipotence paradox. A resolution for this paradox can be reached using Mackie’s duality of omnipotence. The resulting solution maintains God’s omnipotence and man’s free will and while there exist some issues as to the credibility of this interpretation of freedom, as described from a compatibilist perspective, these are ‘other problems’ and as such the solution ca n be separate as an adequate one.\r\n'