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    Free creatures are an enhancement to creation despite the... — Carmelics
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    Free creatures are an enhancement to creation despite their actions not escaping providence.

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    • 1.The nature of free creatures reflects more closely what we suppose to be God's own nature.
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    • 2.Free creatures are more suited to the kind of fellowship with God that believers understand to be their ultimate destiny.
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    • 1.If God's providence cannot be escaped, creaturely freedom is compatibilist at best, undermining the 'enhancement' claim's reliance on genuine libertarian agency.
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    • 2.Compatibilist freedom does not meaningfully mirror divine freedom, collapsing the analogy in P1 of the supporting argument.
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    • 1.The magnitude of evil produced by free creatures—including radical evil like genocide—provides strong prima facie evidence against any net enhancement to creation.
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    • 2.Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov argument holds that no eschatological fellowship can retrospectively justify the suffering of innocents caused by creaturely freedom.
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    McCann 2005 / free will defense passage
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    Another free will defense may yet be available (McCann 2005). (For other attempts to modify a variety of free will defenses so as to make them compatible with theological determinism, see Byerly 2017 and Almeida 2017.) It must be remembered that even though the actions of free creatures do not escape providence, such creatures are still an enhancement to creation, in that their nature reflects more closely what we suppose to be God’s own nature. As such, free creatures are more suited to the kind of fellowship with God that believers understand to be their ultimate destiny. It may be, however,...
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    The passage explicitly states that "even though the actions of free creatures do not escape providence, such creatures are still an enhancement to creation, in that their nature reflects more closely what we suppose to be God's own nature" and that they "are more suited to the kind of fellowship with God that believers understand to be their ultimate destiny," directly matching the premises and conclusion.

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