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Libertarian Free Will and James White's Debate with AK Richardson
Did Dr. James R. White “concede” that Adam had Libertarian Free Will? There was a moment in Dr. White’s debate with AK Richardson, where AK asked whether Adam had free will. Here is my transcript of the exchange: AK: Do you believe that if God purposes to design man with libertarian free will – as…
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Index Page for Responses to Ken Wilson's "Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to 'Non-Free Free Will'"
Dr. Kenneth M. Wilson wrote a book (2018), which is apparently an edition of a doctoral thesis he defended at Oxford (2012). The book, published by the respected publisher Mohr Siebeck as part of the reputable series, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum (vol. 111), has a number of issues. Among the issues are…
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Who Caused Job's Suffering?
Was it Job’s own free will? Check out this interesting analysis and then update your theodicy, if your theodicy depends on “free will.” UPDATE: The link seems to be broken. This is the chart that I thought was interesting: Who Caused The Death And Suffering In Job Ref. Who Inference Text Job 1:11 God Implied…
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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?”…
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Thoughts on the Will's Freedom
I was listening to an interesting discussion on the will’s freedom, in which the compatibilist noted the following: 1) The standard contemporary definition for Libertarian Free Will is the ability to do otherwise, given all preceding causal factors. 2) Thus, to take an example, if we choose to pull a trigger – we could have…
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On Freedom In Choices – Response to "Orthodox"
I had written: The fact that men do make choices, and that some of those decisions are free, does not mean that they are free in the sense required by Arminian, Molinist, or Open Theist interpreters. “Orthodox” responded: If you admit that some decisions are free, you have a lot of work to do to…