The High Cost of Free Will: Ivan Karamazov's Verdict on God’s Creation
Free will is messy.
Ivan Karamazov’s famous verdict against God’s world is expressed like this:
“It’s not God that I do not accept… it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept.”
Why? Because, in his view, the price we, humans, must pay for the gift of free will is too high. God gave humans the freedom and responsibility to choose good over …
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