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    Requiring libertarian freedom in God thus conflicts with ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God must be libertarianly free in his production of creatures—free either to create or not to create.

    Requiring libertarian freedom in God thus conflicts with divine rationality and immutability, making the claim self-defeating within classical theism.

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    • 1.Divine immutability entails God's will cannot be contingent on external factors, yet libertarian freedom requires genuine openness to alternatives.
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    • 2.Perfect rationality means God's choices follow necessarily from divine nature; libertarian freedom requires choices that transcend rational necessity.
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    • 3.Classical theism affirms God's timeless eternality, which logically excludes the temporal deliberation libertarian freedom seems to require.
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    • 1.Libertarian freedom and rationality are compatible if rational choice means choosing for reasons, not choosing arbitrarily against one's nature.
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    • 2.Immutability concerns unchanging character, not the capacity for free rational acts; God can freely actualize one possibility timelessly without change.
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    • 3.The argument equivocates 'necessity' (logical) with 'determinism' (causal); divine rationality constrains but need not eliminate libertarian freedom.
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