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    The standard free will defense is not available to the th... — Carmelics
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    The standard free will defense is not available to the theological determinist.

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    • 1.The standard free will defense works only by diminishing God's authority and circumscribing his providence.
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    • 2.Theological determinism does not allow for diminishing God's authority or circumscribing his providence.
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    • 1.Jonathan Edwards argued God ordains sin as a means to greater goods without being its blameworthy author, preserving a responsibility asymmetry.
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    • 2.A free will defense requires only that creatures bear moral responsibility for evil, not that God lack causal influence over their acts.
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    • 3.Theological determinism is therefore compatible with a modified free will defense that locates culpability in creaturely second causes.
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    • 1.Compatibilist freedom, defended by Leibniz and Edwards, holds that acts caused by God-ordained natures can still be genuinely free.
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    • 2.If compatibilist freedom is coherent, theological determinists can invoke it to explain moral evil without diminishing divine sovereignty.
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    If the author of sin objection does not succeed...
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    If the author of sin objection does not succeed in defeating the traditional view, then what is left is the question of whether God has sufficiently good reason for decreeing the evil that exists. The standard free will defense, which works only by diminishing God’s authority and circumscribing his providence, is not available to the theological determinist. Can the theist’s response to the argument from evil survive the loss of the standard free will defense?
    Extraction notes

    Validity: The passage explicitly states premise 1 and the conclusion, and premise 2 is clearly entailed by the definition of theological determinism (which holds that God determines all things, thus not allowing diminishment of his authority or providence), making the argument both logically valid and faithfully extracted.

    Confidence: The first premise is explicit. The second premise is clearly entailed by the concept of theological determinism, though not stated verbatim.

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