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    It is not the case that It is impossible even for an omnipotent being to make it the case that someone freely chooses to do what is right.

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    • 1.Compatibilist free will, defended by Hume, Frankfurt, and Dennett, holds that freedom requires acting from one's own desires without external compulsion, not the absence of causal determination.
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    • 2.If compatibilism is true, an omnipotent being could arrange the causal history of an agent such that the agent's own character reliably produces right choices, satisfying both freedom and moral goodness.
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    • 3.Plantinga's free will defense therefore presupposes libertarianism without arguing for it, making the impossibility claim conditional on a contested metaphysical assumption, not a necessary truth.
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    • 1.Middle knowledge, as developed by Luis de Molina, holds that God knows counterfactuals of creaturely freedom—what any free agent would choose in any circumstance—prior to any creative act.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.Robert Adams's objection that counterfactuals of freedom lack truth-makers does not establish impossibility but only epistemic or metaphysical uncertainty about Molinist providence.
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    • 1.According to the libertarian conception of free will, free will is incompatible with determinism.
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    • 2.If free will is incompatible with determinism, then no being—not even an omnipotent one—can determine that someone freely chooses to do what is right.
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