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    Challenges→It is impossible even for an omnipotent being to make it the case that someone freely chooses to do what is right.

    If Molinism is coherent, God could actualize a world-segment in which creatures with libertarian free will would, in fact, freely choose rightly across all morally significant situations.

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    Actualize(as describing what power someone has)
    To make something real or bring it into existence; to turn a possibility into reality.
    Molinism(Used as a theodicy-style response to the demographic argument from nonbelief)
    The view that God knows what free creatures would freely do in counterfactual situations (middle knowledge), and God uses this information in the way God governs the universe
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
    libertarian free will(Used to frame the tension between divine freedom and divine moral goodness.)
    An account of free will according to which being free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise.

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    morally significant situations(referring to cases where moral choices are at stake)
    Circumstances where a person's choice matters ethically; situations where there's a real difference between doing something right or wrong.
    world-segment(as a portion of reality God could create)
    A particular part or version of reality that could exist; think of it like one possible scenario or branch of how things could play out.

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