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    It is not the case that If a person freely acts wrongly in a given set of circumstances, it was not within God's power to induce that person to have freely acted otherwise in the exact same circumstances.

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    • 1.Middle knowledge (scientia media) holds that God knows what any free creature would freely choose in any possible circumstance.
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    • 2.If God possesses middle knowledge, he can actualize circumstances in which a person freely chooses rightly without causally determining that choice.
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    • 3.Therefore, God's inability to induce free right action 'in the exact same circumstances' does not exhaust his power to secure free right action via circumstantial variation.
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    • 1.Compatibilism, defended by Leibniz, Hume, and Frankfurt, holds that free action is compatible with causal determination by antecedent conditions.
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    • 2.If compatibilism is true, an omnipotent God could causally structure a person's desires and reasons such that they freely—in the compatibilist sense—choose rightly.
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    • 3.The claim presupposes libertarian free will without argument, making its conclusion conditional on a contested and non-universal conception of freedom.
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    • 1.Not even an omnipotent being can causally determine a genuinely free choice.
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    • 2.The reality of free will introduces an element that lies outside of God's direct causal control.
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