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| Intuitive Sense Of Freedom |
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Morality
Regret
Deliberation and Planning |
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Behavioral Determinism
Genetic or Physical Determinism
Theological Determinism |
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| Are We Free?- Moral Responsibility |
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| Behavioral Determinism (Nurture) |
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| Genetic or Physical Determinism (Nature) |
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| Genetic or Physical Determinism (Nature) |
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| Are We Free?- Deliberation and Planning |
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| Theological Determinism (God) |
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Hard Determinism
Libertarian Freedom
Soft Determinism (aka Compatibilism) |
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| Predestination-- explain further |
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| No freedom/ affirms determinism |
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| Two live options-- Reasons explain actions |
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| Forced to do something you want to do |
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Not due to external compulsion
Immediate cause is an inner desire
Person could have acted otherwise if they wanted |
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Compatibilist Patriarch- Athiest belief shift to Belief in God
Rejects Soft Determinism
Natural and Moral Causations
Shifted belief to libertarian freedom |
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Quantum Physicist and Christian Theologian
Considered one of top authorities on science and religion
Affirms Libertarian Freedom
World is combo of clocks and clouds |
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Immanuel Kant- "Ought implies can"
American legal system is built on free will |
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| Act of apologizing implies that one could have acted otherwise |
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| Deliberation and Planning |
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| When we plan our day, we decide how we are going to allocate our time and other resources |
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Dates at Augustine (354-430) and Pelagius (354-420)
John Calvin (1509-1564)- Reformation Leader
Synod of Dort (1618-19)- 5 points of Calvinism formulated |
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Jacobus Arminius (1559-1609)- Calvinist who challenged some aspects of Reformed theology
Arminianism declared Reformed heresy (time frame??) |
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Total Depravity
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints |
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Resistible Grace
Original Sin
Salvation Available for All
Election conditioned by faith
Security by faith |
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| Scripture of Arminians and Calvinists |
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| The Authoritative Word of God |
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| Predestination Beliefs of Calvinists |
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| Unconditional Election and Reprobation (Damnation)- God "controls every situation" |
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| Predestination Beliefs of Arminianism |
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| Conditional Election and Damnation- God is "in control" of every situation |
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| Foreknowledge of Calvinism |
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| God knows the future because He unilaterally and unconditionally planned it |
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| Foreknowledge of Arminianism |
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| God uses future knowledge of free libertarian human choices to help formulate His plan |
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| Divine-Human Interaction- Calvinism: Soft Deterministic Dual Causation |
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| A free act is a matter of ones desires, even though one has been caused to do so. |
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| Divine-Human Interaction- Arminianism: Libertarian Dual Agency |
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| Freedom is the power to choose between two or more live options. Cupid Capsule |
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| Divine-Human Interaction Commonalities |
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God initiates salvation
God gets all glory in salvation
Humans get the blame for their sin
God and humans are both involved in salvation in some sense |
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| God's Salvific Intent- Calvinism |
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| God has the power to save every person, but lacks the desire-- Why God does not desire the salvation of every person is a mystery |
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| God's Salvific Intent- Arminianism |
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| God desires every person to be saved but lacks the control or power to guarantee this outcome since salvation requires human cooperation |
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| Guiding Role- Arminianism |
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| God as loving relational Family (Trinity: Father, Son, Holy Spirit) |
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| Guiding Attribute- Calvinism |
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| Divine Power (Sovereignty) |
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| Guiding Attribute- Arminianism |
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| "How should a Sovereign God love?" |
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| "How should a God of perfect love express His sovereignty" |
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| Fundamental Human Response- Calvinism |
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| Fundamental Human Response- Arminian |
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| Loving, intimate relationship |
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| Divine-Human Drama-- Calvinism |
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God: Sole author
Humans: Characters who must follow God's unilateral script
Soft Determinism leaves no room for improvisation |
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| Divine-Human Drama-- Arminianism |
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God: Primary author and editor
Humans: Co-authors and characters |
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| Arminian Critique of Calvinism |
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Unloving God
Radical Uncertainty
Logical fallacy of equivocation
Undermines prayer and evangelism
Eternal insecurity
Does not do justice to God's love |
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| Calvinistic Critique of Arminianism |
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Human-centered
Rationalistic
Weak God
Undermines prayer and evangelism
Leads to eternal insecurity
Does not do justice to God's power |
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Expectations of the world: infinitely powerful, intelligent, and a good God would create.
We discover a DIFFERENT world from our A Priori.
We have no reason to infer the world was created by an infinitely powerful, intelligent, and good God. |
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Logical Argument From Evil
(See Revised Argument) |
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God is good, omnipotent, and omniscient.
Good people prevent as much evil as possible.
People who are omnipotent and omniscient can prevent all evil.
If there were a God, there would be no evil.
But there is evil.
Hence, there is no God. |
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Theodicy- attempt to defent and justify God in the face of evil
Moral Evil: Brought by moral agent
Natural Evil: Brought by natural causes |
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1. Evil is God's Punishment (Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson after 9/11).
2. Change our concept of God (not all-powerful or all-loving).
3. Goodness means something different when applied to God (the idea of love and goodness are fundamentally different).
4. Good outweighs evil.
5. The need for contrast.
6. Aesthetic Theme.
7. Deny the reality of evil.
8. Evil is God's way of coaxing repentance (C.S. Lewis).
9. Novel Analogy (Harold Crick). |
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