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    It is not the case that Theological determinism is therefore compatible with a modified free will defense that locates culpability in creaturely second causes.

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    • 1.If God determines all events in creation, then creaturely choices lack the alternative possibilities required for genuine moral responsibility.
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    • 2.Labeling human choices 'second causes' merely relabels the problem rather than solving it—they remain determined by prior divine acts.
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    • 3.Compatibilist accounts of free will strain credibility when applied to omnipotent beings whose will is the ultimate causal source of all creation.
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    • 1.God's foreknowledge of all events need not causally determine them if creatures possess genuine causal powers independent of divine willing.
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    • 2.Second causes can be both ontologically dependent on God and still be the actual efficient causes of human actions.
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    • 3.Moral responsibility can coherently attach to creatures even within a deterministic system if their actions flow from their own desires and reasoning.
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