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    Free will introduces into the universe an element that, f... — Carmelics
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    Free will introduces into the universe an element that, from God's perspective, is utterly random in that it lies outside of God's direct causal control.

    Eternal Conscious Torment
    Overall Strength:55%
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    • Not even an omnipotent being can causally determine a genuinely free choice.
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    • 1.On Molinist accounts, God possesses middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, making no free choice epistemically random from God's perspective.
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    • 2.Luis de Molina's scientia media allows God to actualize worlds where free creatures behave in ways God fully anticipates, without causally determining those choices.
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    • 3.If God foreknows all free choices via middle knowledge, 'utterly random from God's perspective' mischaracterizes the epistemic situation even if causal indetermination holds.
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    • 1.Compatibilist traditions from Leibniz through Frankfurt hold that freedom is compatible with causal determination by character, motive, or sufficient reason.
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    • 2.If compatibilism is true, God can design creatures whose free choices are both causally grounded in their natures and genuinely free, eliminating the claimed randomness entirely.
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    Unlike the Augustinians, Arminian theologians emphasize the role that free will plays in determining one’s eternal destiny in heaven or hell; they also accept the so-called libertarian understanding of free will, according to which freedom and determinism are incompatible (see the entry on free will)). Because not even an omnipotent being can causally determine a genuinely free choice, the reality of free will, they say, introduces into the universe an element that, from God’s perspective, is utterly random in that it lies outside of God’s direct causal control. Accordingly, if some person s...

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