According to Mackie, It Is Sometimes Suggested That "Evil Is

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Multiple Choice

According to Mackie, it is sometimes suggested that "Evil is due to human free will." Mackie criticizes this position when he says that this "solution of the problem of evil, then, can be maintained only in the form that God has made men so free that he ..."

• A) cannot be eternal.
• B) cannot control their wills.
• C) cannot exist in us.
• D) cannot be omniscient.

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