ks that solution (iv) is unsatisfactory. He states that if God made individuals with the will to do good and bad, then why did he not make them will only good. Then Mackie goes on to express that some think wrong choices are necessary for freedom (free will). This objection then proceeds to the problem with two different types of freedom. One of the freedoms is the third order good. The other is the ‘random’ decision making that takes place by humans (free will). The second freedom takes away the responsibility of making men freely choose the good decision from God. From this fact, Mackie states that God’s omnipotence is no longer valid if men are really free. He then exposes that it is possible that God can control individuals wills butt that he just refrains from doing so. Mackie takes this problem into consideration and moves to an important part of his work called the Paradox of Omipotence. This paradox questions whether a powerful (omnipotent) being can make things that he cannot control. The reason this paradox is important is because if of the answers. If one answer’s ‘Yes,’ that God can make things which he cannot control, then one is denying him omnipotence because there would be things that he cannot do. If one answers ‘No,’ that god cannot make things that bind himself, then again one is denying God the power to do everything (omnipotence). After Mackie fully states the Paradox, he moves to a possible objection. The objection is for an individual to build a machine (which has no free will) and determine how it will behave. This determination does not work because the individual only determines the machines actions and does not know for sure what it will do. God, on the other hand, is supposed to know all and be omnipotent. Therefore, he should be able to control human actions. Now that Mackie has made the Paradox clear he tries to suggest solutions. He attempt...
