He would need to have exhaustive knowledge of all possible goods that God might act towards and evils that he might act to avoid then conclude that none of these reasons could, in any circumstance, justify a divine lie. Moreover, Mr. Andrew’s criticism of the noseeum inference in the Rowe-style evidential problem of evil wont allow such epistemological boldness. And so, the mere fact that Mr. Andrews can’t conceive of a possible justifying reason for God to lie to him gives him no reason whatsoever to think that no such reason could possibly exist. So this response wont do. |