In this section of the reading, Stump is criticizing Swinburnes view that natural evils are necessary to give humans knowledge of the consequences of their potential actionsknowledge we need to have significant freedom.
1/ Explain in your own words why Stump does not think it would inhibit our freedom if God simply revealed this knowledge to us rather than having us learn it from natural evils.
2/ Explain in your own words why Stump thinks we would not need natural evils to learn this knowledge even if God chose not to reveal it to us.
3/Explain in your own words why Stump thinks that even if we sometimes needed natural evils to learn this knowledge, that wouldnt explain why God allows all the natural evils that occur.
answered: In this section of the reading, Stump is criticizing Swinbur
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