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    Challenges→The alternation of confirmations and doubts concerning the immortality of the soul is part of God's providential design

    Persistent epistemic disagreement about a proposition is better explained by the proposition's undecidability than by divine orchestration.

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    • 1.Undecidability invokes only logical/semantic properties; divine orchestration requires additional metaphysical assumptions without empirical evidence.
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    • 2.Disagreement patterns match undecidability: persistent despite good-faith inquiry, across all intelligence levels, and resistant to new evidence.
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    • 3.Undecidability explains why disagreement persists even among those who accept divine existence, suggesting the issue transcends theological commitment.
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    • 1.Some persistent disagreements (e.g., basic arithmetic) are decidable; undecidability alone cannot explain which disagreements persist and which resolve.
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    • 2.Divine orchestration could explain disagreement as intentional—God preserving human freedom—which is coherent and potentially more causally sufficient than abstract undecidability.
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    • 3.Calling a proposition 'undecidable' may merely relabel the explanandum rather than explain it; we still lack account of why minds cannot converge on truth.
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