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      God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will 

      Skeptical Theism

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      Oxford University Press

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          This chapter critically examines skeptical theism, roughly the point of view that God exists but that God’s reasons for permitting evils are beyond our abilities to discern. Matters addressed include the epistemic import of appearances of pointlessness, the skeptical theses and analogies for the human condition with respect to apparently pointless evils defended by Michael Bergmann, and concerns about skeptical spread. The chapter provides support for the idea that, if there were God-justifying reasons for evils, we would see them, thereby defending a key premise in the argument from pointless evils and the argument from facts about evil.

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          May 06 2021
          March 18 2021
          : 96-130
          10.1093/oso/9780197556412.003.0004
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