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    Experiencing the consequences of their freely chosen life... — Carmelics
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    Supports→God would have a sure-fire way to shatter the illusions that make sinners' rebellion possible, even for the most tenacious sinners.

    Experiencing the consequences of their freely chosen life apart from God would teach them a hard lesson and do the most good.

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    Now, as already indicated, those who embrace a free-will theodicy of hell typically appeal, in the words of Jonathan Kvanvig, to “a libertarian account of human freedom in order to provide a complete response to” the problem of hell (Kvanvig 2011, 54). But of course such a “complete response” would also require a relatively complete account of libertarian freedom. According to Kvanvig, “some formulation of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP) correctly describes this notion of [libertarian] freedom”; and, as he also points out, this “principle claims that in order to act freely one...

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