Does God Have Rights?
By DONALD DeMARCO God certainly had the opportunity to create whatever He wanted to bring into being. But was that opportunity also a “right”? Was it the right thing to do? What could justify creation? We can answer this in the positive because God is also good and what He created is good, as is stated in Genesis. Various thinkers throughout history have assigned God’s freedom a greater status than His goodness. William of Ockham, in his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, maintained that murder, fornication, robbery, and other vices would be moral if they conformed to God’s Will. Therefore, God was at liberty to command anything He so desired, irrespective of its objective value. In this view,…Continue Reading