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I don't understand what it is you don't understand about libertarian free will. Can you be more clear what it is you don't understand?
I might be wrong, but I think you do understand the concept, but you just don't understand how it works. If that is the case you are not alone, because no one knows how it works. All we need to understand is the concept, not how it works.
Is it not, then, necessarily UNCAUSED by definition? If that is what you mean, I find it entirely unscriptural and logically impossible.
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"Why is it necessary that all options be actually possible, in order to, according to one's own will, choose one of them?"
Or else it's not a libertarian free will choice.
But WHY not? One still chooses, and it is rather obvious that he only chose the one. How can you say he could have chosen the other? There is no evidence of it.
If it is, it's still not a work. Do you find repentance in the commandments?
Yes.
Being hopeless means I have no power to change my situation. If I have no hope I can do things that will change the situation which can give me hope.
That's the use you make of the two constructions. But they are the same meaning. No hope = no hope. One makes you think of what the other doesn't. Scripture isn't saying, there, that we can do something to get hope.
I think the problem with comparing books like that is that you cut out snippets and use them to validate each other, when the snippets may be explaining very different things, or have very different perspective of things. The best way IMO is to read each book of the Bible by itself, fully get to know it. As you do this with many books the picture of the Bible clears, and you get a sense of how it all fits together. If we don't really know the books in dept and start to compare passages with other books, we can get a completely wrong message. Of course even if we take lot of time with one book, we can still get the wrong picture, but I say it's a much better chance we understand it right, than starting off with comparing it with other books.
That's valid. But I didn't start off comparing Ephesians to Romans. I read each, many times, and studied each many times. I love reading large swaths of scripture, by which method I found all sorts of parallel passages that the marginal notes never thought of.
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