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Good #1: Freely choosing to enter a loving relationship with God is a great good — a love potion analogy shows forced love isn't real love. Good #2: Alvin Plantinga's supralapsarianism theodicy — the Incarnation and atonement (Christ dying for those who hate him) is among the greatest conceivable acts of love, only possible in a world with sin.

4 Weird Questions That Should Not Make You an Atheist 01:04:09 – 01:06:10

Response to Q4 — goods requiring earth (love and atonement)

Cameron: choosing heaven freely is inherently valuable; forced love (love potion) isn't real. Alvin Plantinga argues that Christ's sacrificial death for enemies is such a supreme good that a world allowing it may be better than one that doesn't. This good is only possible in a world with sin and suffering.

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