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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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Compatibilism / Determinism
In response to my post: When someone doesn’t get you (or more specifically doesn’t understand compatibilism), Valentine’s Day Edition: @aspin3 going by “All for His Glory” responded: Francis, as a compatiblist, what is ONE. Just ONE thing that a full theistic determinist would believe God decreed/determined that you would not agree with? Just one. What…
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What about tests in Scripture?
My friend, Dan, has a post that has remained unrebutted for the past 12 years (link), as far as I know. Before we come to the arguments he makes, let’s look at the Scriptural discussion of trying, testing, and temptation (in the older sense of the word). 1. Nāsâ (נָסָה) (pronounced naw-saw’) Strong’s H5254 Variously translated…
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The Fallible(?) God of Molinism and the Problem of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
One aspect of “Libertarian” (nothing to do with politics) Free Will (LFW for short) is the idea that a free agent can, in the same circumstance, either do A or not do A. God’s advance knowledge of the future, coupled with God’s infallibility, poses a serious problem to this idea, since it seems that either…
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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…
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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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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…