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    Luis de Molina's scientia media allows God to actualize w... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Free will introduces into the universe an element that, from God's perspective, is utterly random in that it lies outside of God's direct causal control.

    Luis de Molina's scientia media allows God to actualize worlds where free creatures behave in ways God fully anticipates, without causally determining those choices.

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    • 1.God's knowledge of counterfactuals about free choices (what creatures would freely choose in any circumstance) is logically prior to creation and requires no causal determination.
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    • 2.Molina preserves genuine libertarian freedom by distinguishing between God's infallible knowledge and causal determination of human choices.
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    • 3.Scientia media avoids both theological fatalism and the claim that God's omniscience is limited to logical possibilities rather than actual futures.
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    • 1.If God infallibly knows what creatures will freely choose, those choices cannot be genuinely contingent or undetermined—they are already settled facts.
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    • 2.Counterfactuals of creaturely freedom (what free agents would do in any circumstance) lack determinate truth values independent of causal facts, making God's knowledge of them incoherent.
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    • 3.Molina's doctrine introduces unexplained conceptual gaps: how God accesses knowledge of non-actual conditionals without either determining or limiting omniscience.
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