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It is not the case that 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.
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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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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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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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Compatibilist traditions from Leibniz through Frankfurt hold that freedom is compatible with causal determination by character, motive, or sufficient reason.
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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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Not even an omnipotent being can causally determine a genuinely free choice.
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