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    Challenges→God will not prevent us from separating ourselves from him, even forever, if that is what we freely choose to do.

    Kant's account of radical evil and Marilyn McCord Adams's work on horrendous evil suggest human wills are so distorted that post-mortem choices cannot bear the moral weight of eternal consequence.

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    Distorted wills(as describing the condition of human moral agency)
    The idea that human desires and decision-making capacities have become twisted or corrupted away from what they should be, making choices unreliable or morally compromised.
    Eternal consequence(as what post-mortem choices might determine)
    A result or punishment that lasts forever, never ending—often referring to religious ideas like heaven or hell that supposedly last for eternity.
    Horrendous evil(as distinguished from ordinary wrongdoing in debates about forgiveness)
    Extreme, devastating suffering or wrongdoing that seems so terrible it can't be justified or made right—think genocide, torture, or child abuse rather than everyday harms.
    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.

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    Marilyn McCord Adams(as a cited philosopher in discussions of evil and forgiveness)
    A contemporary American philosopher who specializes in theology and philosophy of religion, known for her work on how God relates to human suffering and evil.
    Post-mortem(as used to describe the time after someone's death)
    The Latin phrase meaning 'after death'; refers to the period after someone has died.
    moral weight(as used in ethics)
    How serious or significant a wrong action is; how much it matters ethically.
    radical evil(Kant, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason 6:37)
    The ineradicable propensity of human reason to give priority to the incentives of inclination over the incentive of duty.

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