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    Challenges→A freely chosen eternal destiny apart from God is metaphysically impossible.

    If character formation through repeated free choices can produce a self whose deepest identity is oriented away from God, then that final orientation is itself a free achievement, not a mere misjudgment correctable by further information.

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    Character formation(as used in ethics and virtue philosophy)
    The process of developing someone's personality, habits, and moral values over time through experiences and choices.
    Free achievement(as used in discussions of moral responsibility and human agency)
    Something you have accomplished or created through your own genuine choices, not something that just happened to you or resulted from a simple mistake.
    Identity(Adams treats identity statements as a variety of atomic formula rather than a logical truth exempt from existence presuppositions)
    A relation between an object and itself, expressed as an atomic formula (a=a), subject to the same existence-entailment conditions as other atomic predicates under GSA
    Misjudgment(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge and belief))
    A mistake in understanding or evaluating something—an error that could be corrected if you just had better information or clearer thinking.

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    Oriented away from God(as used in theology and philosophy of religion)
    A state of being where your deepest values, choices, and direction in life are set against or separate from God (in religious philosophy).
    free choice(Clarke's definition of libertarian free will as applied to divine agency)
    A choice that logically requires the agent to have the power to choose otherwise than they actually chose

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