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Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty & Human Freedom is unavailable, but you can change that!

If God is in control, are people really free? This question has bothered Christians for centuries. And answers have covered a wide spectrum. Today Christians still disagree. Those who emphasize human freedom view it as a reflection of God’s self-limited power. Others look at human freedom in the order of God’s overall control. David and Randall Basinger have put this age-old question to four...

contrary to his wishes” (desires) (p. 41, note 60). But in spite of this large area of agreement, there appear to be some important areas of difference between our views. My basic problem with Feinberg’s view is that, logically, it amounts to a denial of human free choice and, thus, would make God responsible for evil. The first problem I see with the position is that Feinberg holds that God can decide (choose) contrary to his desires but we cannot. If this is so, then God is free and we are not.
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