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    It is not the case that The standard free will defense is not available to the theological determinist.

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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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    • 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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