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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    Physical science doesn't have an opinion on free will, it's a philosophical question. But without free will, there is no ability to do...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    How did I read the post before you finished it? And when I say "your theology" it's because what you have put forth in your claims of...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    Human intention is not "a random", and you're confining what is possible for God based on what you can imagine. That's the key issue...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    I'm not sure your point here Down below. Nope, there's a difference between willingly submitting to God and God pulling all the...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    Uh huh. Never said anything besides, but you're squirming away from the basic experience. In his heart, man plans his way. The Lord...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    You're obfuscating. Sequences aren't important to the question at hand, all that matters is whether or not our sense of making choices...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    Do you not find yourself choosing between the available options? No one said anything about men being able to save themselves. But that...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    Free will isn't really a model, and determinism isn't an everyday assumption. Determinism is a sweeping declaration about the whole of...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    I wouldn't expect us to be able to, but every model we create is false in some way. Just because we can't wrap our heads around how it...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    So by this same argument, your conditional statement is false so what is your argument? A wikipedia article is not demonstrative of...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    From the perspective you're coming from, I can appreciate why you would think so. But in reality, the best argument for free will is...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    Nope, compatibilism asserts that whether or not we have free will we have responsibility for our actions. It still denies free will as a...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Free will and determinism.
    The issue is that OP thinks he's presenting an argument when all he is doing is asserting the consequent. His "argument" essentially...
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    Fervent reacted to QvQ's post in the thread Free will and determinism with Like Like.
    The Free Will -Determinism threads abound and it always comes down to these two positions I am going to try to present the two sides as...
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    Fervent replied to the thread Can Humans Equal G'd?.
    There is a divine plan, but this world is fallen and not the world that God created. It's a world ruled by Satan, though his reign is...