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    It is not the case that God's activity as first cause is actually the cause of our freedom.

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    • 1.A will determined in its very act of willing by an external cause—even one aligned with its nature—lacks the sourcehood required for genuine freedom.
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    • 2.Compatibilist redefinitions of freedom as 'acting according to one's nature' cannot account for the agent's ability to be the ultimate originator of her own acts.
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    • 3.Kant's autonomy condition requires that the will legislate for itself, a condition violated if God is the primary cause of each free act.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The claim that divine causation causes freedom commits a category error: causation produces effects, but freedom is the absence of a certain kind of causal determination.
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    • 2.Rowe's principle holds that an omnipotent being who actualizes every free choice renders the agent's contribution causally redundant, defeating the concept of agent causation.
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    Reasons Against

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    • God moves us in accordance with our voluntary nature.
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