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    It is not the case that If God timelessly ordains the complete causal structure of history, the absence of a prior sufficient cause for Plato's decision is itself within God's creative power, not beyond it.

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    • 1.If God ordains the absence of a prior sufficient cause, that ordination itself becomes a causal explanation, contradicting the claim.
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    • 2.Grounding Plato's decision in God's timeless ordination of its causelessness reintroduces dependence, undermining libertarian freedom.
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    • 3.Conflating 'not caused by prior events' with 'caused to be causally independent' equivocates on what 'causation' means.
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    • 1.God's timeless omniscience encompasses all facts, including uncaused facts, without requiring prior external causes.
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    • 2.A decision's causal independence from prior events is compatible with God ordaining that very independence as part of the total order.
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    • 3.Divine creative power includes the capacity to establish brute facts and fundamental truths not derived from anything prior.
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