Similarly, the assumption that sinners retain their libertarian freedom together with the Christian doctrine of the preservation of the saints yields the result that we can be just as confident that God will eventually win over all sinners as we can be that a fair coin will land heads up at least once in a trillion tosses.
Yield the result(as used in logical argumentation)
A formal way of saying 'lead to the conclusion' or 'result in.' When you 'yield a result,' you're showing what logically follows from certain assumptions.
libertarian freedom
The view that freedom involves a radical, indeterminist exercise of power.
But in addition to defending the bare logical possibility of such a universal reconciliation on libertarian grounds, Eric Reitan has set forth an intriguing argument, which he calls “the Argument from Infinite Opportunity,” for the conclusion that God can effectively guarantee the salvation of all sinners without ever interfering with anyone’s libertarian freedom (see Kronen and Reitan 2011, Ch. 8). The basic idea here is that a sinner could have, if necessary, infinitely many opportunities over an unending stretch of time to repent and to submit to God freely. So consider this. Although it is...