-
An Additional Evidence Regarding the "Dictionary Definition" and Compatibilism
During my recent debate on Compatible Free Will as opposed to Libertarian Free Will, which was supposed to be about whether the Bible teaches Libertarian Free Will and ended up being about whether the word “choose” requires Libertarian Free Will, I omitted to provide an illustration that I think would be helpful. My esteemed disputant…
-
Negative Constructive
Prologue If you try to put a square peg in a round hole, you’re asking for trouble. Those two are not compatible shapes. Their incompatibility can be seen just by looking at their shapes. The incompatibility of things we can’t see is often more difficult to determine. For example, if we have a square peg…
-
Some Verses Regarding Compatible Free Will
The Bible teaches compatible, not so-called “libertarian,” free will. That means that men choose what God has foreordained or determined that they will choose. It’s the kind of free will that Calvinists speak about, and it is the kind of free will that is referred to when the Scriptures speak about “Freewill offerings.” (See, for…
-
Determined Choices
Paul Manata at Triablogue has a fascinating post on Determined Choices (link). He provides a reasonably concise explanation of how God’s declaration that he decides when we die (John 14:5) and the fact that people sometimes choose to kill themselves are compatible, not contradictory. Thus, he reasonably concludes that the nature of free will is…
-
Trying out Godismyjudge’s Clarification
Godismyjudge (Dan) has provided some clarification (link) to an earlier question to which I had responded here (link). Earlier posts in the series (first)(second). Dan had asked: “Given whatever existed before the first act, was it absolutely impossible for God to create a world which didn’t include rain on May 31, 2008[,] in the afternoon?”…
-
With Man it is Impossible – A Further Response to GodIsMyJudge
This is a response to a post (link) from Godismyjudge (Dan) responding to my earlier post here (link). Dan’s response doesn’t seem to consist of much. 1) Dan seems to think that God self-determining is significant. In fact he says, “Please just let me enjoy the moment.” As demonstrated previously, though, self-determining does not equate…
-
God Determines All – A Response to Godismyjudge
In response to my recent post (link) on some fundamental problems with LFW, Godismyjudge (Dan) has provided a response (link). This is my rebuttal to his response. Ultimately, the problem I have with Dan’s response is this: our position is that God sovereignly determines all of history. We don’t have any problem asserting that God…