Under eternalism, the four-dimensional block universe fixes all events timelessly, leaving no causal power for deliberation to alter outcomes (cf. Pereboom's hard incompatibilism).

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Causal power(as used in metaphysics): The ability of something to make other things happen or change; the capacity to be a cause.
Four-dimensional block universe(as a model of reality in physics and philosophy): The idea that reality is like a solid block where time is just another dimension (like length, width, and height), so all events that ever happened or will happen are already fixed in place.
Pereboom's hard incompatibilism(as a referenced philosophical position): Derk Pereboom is a philosopher who argues that free will is impossible (hard incompatibilism) because even in a universe with randomness, we still can't truly control our choices.
Timelessly(describing how a perfectly rational will would act): Outside of time; existing or acting in a way that isn't bound by past, present, or future the way humans are.

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