Abstract A reply to Bogdan V. Faul’s “Can God Promise Us a New Past? A Response to Lebens and Goldschmidt.” In this reply we clarify why it is that we regard a scene-changing theory of time to be an improvement over presentism from a theological point of view. We present two benefits: a scene changing theory allows God (1) to improve the past and it allows him (2) to give free will to human beings whilst ensuring that they hyper-will never have misused it. More generally, the scene-changing theory when compared to presentism has the more compelling account of the badness of past evils.

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过去的邪恶：对Bogdan V. Faul的回复

摘要对Bogdan V. Faul的“上帝能给我们一个新的过去吗？”的答复。对Lebens和Goldschmidt的回应。” 在此答复中，我们阐明了为什么从神学的角度来看，我们将场景变换的时间理论视为对表现主义的改进的原因。我们有两个好处：场景改变理论可以使上帝（1）改善过去，并允许他（2）向人类提供自由意志，同时确保他们永远不会滥用它。更笼统地说，当与当下主义相比时，场景变换理论更能说明过去的恶行。