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    Libertarian free will requires that God permit creatures ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God lacks at least one of the traditional divine attributes (omniscience, omnipotence, or omnibenevolence), and therefore the God of traditional theism does not exist.

    Libertarian free will requires that God permit creatures to choose evil, making divine non-intervention a logical necessity, not an attribute deficiency.

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    • 1.Genuine choice requires real alternative possibilities; if God prevents evil choices, creatures lack authentic agency over their decisions.
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    • 2.A world with free creatures who sometimes choose evil is more valuable than one with unfree automatons, justifying divine restraint.
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    • 3.God's omnipotence includes logical limits; creating free beings who cannot choose evil is contradictory, not a divine power.
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    • 1.An omnipotent God could create beings with libertarian free will who never actually choose evil—possibility ≠ necessity.
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    • 2.Presenting non-intervention as logically necessary rather than chosen obscures that God still ultimately permits evil, accepting responsibility.
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    • 3.Many compatibilist accounts preserve meaningful freedom without requiring unguided choice, undermining the dichotomy this claim assumes.
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