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Strong theological determinism is based on the concept of a creator deity dictating all events in history: "everything that happens has been predestined to happen by an omniscient, omnipotent divinity". [2] Weak theological determinism, is based on the concept of divine foreknowledge – "because God's omniscience is perfect, what God knows ...
Ecumenical interpretations of the wager [34] argues that it could even be suggested that believing in a generic God, or a god by the wrong name, is acceptable so long as that conception of God has similar essential characteristics of the conception of God considered in Pascal's wager (perhaps the God of Aristotle). Proponents of this line of ...
God could not, for example, create square circles, act contrary to his nature, or, more relevantly, create beings with free will that would never choose evil. [8] Taking this latter point further, Plantinga argued that the moral value of human free will is a credible offsetting justification that God could have as a morally justified reason for ...
The sovereignty (autonomy) of God, existing within a free agent, provides strong inner compulsions toward a course of action (calling), and the power of choice (election). The actions of a human are thus determined by a human acting on relatively strong or weak urges (both from God and the environment around them) and their own relative power ...
Her first criticism was against the use of the word "irrational" by Lewis (Anscombe 1981: 225-26). Her point was that there is an important difference between irrational causes of belief, such as wishful thinking, and nonrational causes, such as neurons firing in the brain, that do not obviously lead to faulty reasoning.
Strong theological determinism is based on the concept of a creator deity dictating all events in history: "everything that happens has been predestined to happen by an omniscient, omnipotent divinity." [22] Weak theological determinism is based on the concept of divine foreknowledge—"because God's omniscience is perfect, what God knows about ...
Many Islamic scholars have used philosophical and rational arguments to prove the existence of God. For example, Ibn Rushd, a 12th-century Islamic scholar, philosopher, and physician, states there are only two arguments worthy of adherence, both of which are found in what he calls the "Precious Book" (The Qur'an). Rushd cites "providence" and ...
Van Inwagen's 1983 monograph An Essay on Free Will [6] played an important role in rehabilitating libertarianism with respect to free will in mainstream analytical philosophy. [7] In the book, he introduces the term incompatibilism about free will and determinism , to stand in contrast to compatibilism —the view that free will is compatible ...