Dr Craig an article was sent to us that God is a consequentialist, the Theus

defense. God is not moral and this is from Jonathan M.S. Pierce, who addresses you

in this particular essay.

And he says that God is a consequentialist and he'll be looking at a defense that you and others

have used to get around this.

I guess we need to define what we mean by consequentialism or a consequentialist right off the

bat.

Yes, he doesn't make that actually very clear in his blog, but I think on page two he captures the essence of it.

He says, according to consequentialism, the value of an event

is not in the event itself but derived from the consequences.

So that if a decision, for example, a moral decision has good consequences then the decision is

morally good if it has bad consequences then the decision is morally bad that

would be consequentialism and ethics. And I would reject that

view, but his claim is that on my view of God, God turns out to be a consequentialist.

And so he's saying that you try to get around the fact that God is a consequentialist.

Would you offer defenses and arguments that show that God is not held to consequentialism?

Yes, I would challenge any argument that Jonathan would like to put forward

to prove that God is a consequentialist.

I don't think that there are any good arguments

to show that or that I have affirmed that he is.

He uses Noah's flood first as an illustration.

So there's context is everything here.

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