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Theological determinism, on the other hand, claims that all events are determined by God. On this view, God decrees that everything will go thus-and-so and ensures that everything goes that way, so that ultimately God is the cause of everything that happens and everything that happens is part of God’s plan. We might think of God here as the all-powerful movie director who writes the script and causes everything to go in accord with it. We should note, as an aside, that there is some debate over what would be sufficient for theological determinism to be true.
Some philosophers have responded to Plantinga by arguing that the process of evolution could likely by itself, without divine oversight, furnish us with reliable cognitive faculties. For critical discussion of this argument, including objections and Plantinga’s replies, see Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, ed. James Bielby (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 2002). Exclusivism Reflection on religious diversity—the fact that there are many different major religions in the world, with millions of adherents some of whom display exclusivism 39 a great deal of spiritual and moral sensitivity—often leads to the question whether different and apparently opposing religious traditions can be inspired by the same divine reality, and whether each can provide a genuine path to salvation.
The Euthyphro problem raises the famous and important question, Is an action right because God commands it, or does God command it because it is right? DCT answers this question by taking the first option and saying that an action is right because God commands it. To put the matter very loosely, when God thinks about which actions to command and which to forbid, God does not say, “Hmmm. ” Instead, on DCT, truth-telling isn’t right until God commands it, and lying isn’t wrong until God forbids it.