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    If predication is compatible with God being the sole suff... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Even if God's creative will grounds my act of deciding, the decision remains mine and not God's.

    If predication is compatible with God being the sole sufficient cause, then P3 fails to establish that the decision is not ultimately God's in the morally relevant sense.

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    • 1.God's causal sufficiency is compatible with secondary causes having genuine causal powers through a hierarchical framework of causation.
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    • 2.If an agent's decision expresses their own deliberative process, that decision remains theirs even if God sustains its causal conditions.
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    • 3.P3's argument conflates metaphysical origination with moral responsibility; the latter requires agent-relative causal involvement, not independence.
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    • 1.Predication of agency requires that the agent could have acted otherwise in a robust sense; God's sole sufficiency undermines this modal condition.
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    • 2.If God determines all causal pathways, attributing decisions to creatures as ultimately theirs becomes merely nominal rather than substantive.
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    • 3.Moral responsibility requires originating causal power; reliance on God's causation for both the capacity and exercise of will removes genuine agency.
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