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    If compatibilist freedom is coherent, theological determi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The standard free will defense is not available to the theological determinist.

    If compatibilist freedom is coherent, theological determinists can invoke it to explain moral evil without diminishing divine sovereignty.

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    • 1.Compatibilist freedom—acting without external coercion according to one's desires—is logically coherent and distinct from metaphysical libertarian freedom.
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    • 2.God determining all events through complete foreknowledge need not eliminate compatibilist freedom if agents freely choose their actions by their own desires.
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    • 3.This framework preserves moral responsibility and divine sovereignty simultaneously, avoiding the incoherence of libertarian free will meeting omniscience.
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    • 1.Compatibilist freedom may be coherent but seems to dodge the core problem: whether God is ultimately morally responsible for creating agents whose desires lead to evil.
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    • 2.Moral evil requires a genuine alternative possibility; compatibilism's denial of alternate possibilities may render agent-responsibility illusory, not salvaged.
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    • 3.Invoking compatibilism appears ad hoc—theologians reject it elsewhere when defending human dignity, suggesting the move serves doctrine rather than principled consistency.
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