Further Thoughts on God and Trans-World Moral Agency

Images from a "trans-world moral agency" search. I take it to mean processed carbs are an element of a depraved universe.

I posted about the problem of evil about a month ago, and I had some further ideas related to it.

  1. God created at least one physical universe with moral agency (axiomatic).
  2. God created the angels with moral agency (2 Peter 2:4, Jude 6).
  3. God would be omniscient enough to know when his preference for moral agency-creation would be sated, or he is never sated with the creation of moral agencies in universes.
  4. God has no reason to not fulfill his preferences maximally.
  5. Only God is the only perfect moral agent (or, all moral agents are imperfect creations absolutely).
  6. Imperfect moral agents will eventually choose depravity at least once.
  7. Therefore, he seems to prefer moral agency more than moral automata (1 and 2).
  8. Therefore, every universe created would contain at least one type of moral agent, or, no universe would be created with only moral automata (3,4,7).
  9. Therefore, every universe created would experience depravity (5,6,8).

In a nutshell, if God prefers moral agency in one instance, and assuming he has enough power and knowledge (I don’t think he has to be omni-propertied) to know his own preferences and is able to fill them, he would prefer moral agency creation with every creation “session”.

I was hesitant about proposition 2 because the creation of angels isn’t really a universe creation, although the creation of hell may be seen as that. I included it to bolster the idea of God preferring moral agency. Hell’s depravity is pretty much axiomatic, but maybe not in the same sense that our universe, or any universe with moral-agency-depravity, would be. Christ saw it fit to redeem our universe and though Revelation has Satan unrepentant for eternity it doesn’t say there wasn’t some sort of plan in place to redeem him that he ultimately rejected, and I don’t think there’s anything mentioning the other fallen angels.

Homework: barring verses to the contrary, other universes are at least not likely and I might say they are more than likely given statement 4. If so, what would trans-world redemption look like?

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