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	<title>God. Real. Right. &#187; Free Will</title>
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		<title>Free Will: Its Presence in Humanity Is No Insult to Divine Nature</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2010/06/11/free-will-its-presence-in-humanity-is-no-insult-to-divine-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is next in a long series on this site attempting to address (1) why it is challenging to understand how there could be a free will, (2) that it is much more theologically, philosophically, and ethically crippling to reject its possibility, and finally both (3) that it is possible that there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: People May Have It Whether They Act Like It Or Not</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2009/12/28/free-will-people-may-have-it-whether-they-act-like-it-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is next in a long series on this site attempting to address (1) why it is challenging to understand how there could be a free will, (2) that it is much more theologically, philosophically, and ethically crippling to reject its possibility, and finally both (3) that it is possible that there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Without Freedom, No Law Has Moral Value</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2009/02/16/684/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous posts have explained why so many people find it difficult to believe in free will. Other prior posts explain that although it may be difficult, it is important to do so. This post continues that theme.
2.2.2 Real justice requires freedom regarding both behavior and character.
The fact that this moral problem for determinism (that determinism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Explanations of God&#8217;s Foreknowledge Are Unnecessary</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/11/14/free-will-explanations-of-gods-foreknowledge-are-unnecessary/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/11/14/free-will-explanations-of-gods-foreknowledge-are-unnecessary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post concludes the first difficulty of denying the reality of free will. That first difficulty is that it underestimates the nature and power of God.
2.1.2.2  Even explaining God’s foreknowledge while accepting free will is too great a limit on God.
Using God’s foreknowledge of possibilities as a means of explaining freedom while maintaining God’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: The Significance of Contingency and the Significance of Revelation Are Directly Proportional</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/10/14/free-will-the-significance-of-contingency-and-the-significance-of-revelation-are-directly-proportional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Will]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reason]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2.1.2.1.3 The significance of contingency and revelation are directly proportional.
This post does not argue that revelation would have to be unimportant if determinism were true, but rather that the more likely indeterminacy and contingency are, the more fundamentally important special revelation is. It is a point which emerges from the freedom of God and leads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redistribution of Wealth, Reason, Motive, and Morals</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/10/13/redistribution-of-wealth-reason-motive-and-morals/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/10/13/redistribution-of-wealth-reason-motive-and-morals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The closer an election, the greater the shallow promises intended to convince a few more voters toward one side or the other. Since by definition the majority of people are not wealthy, many of those shallow promises are aimed at the middle class and lower. &#8220;We will not raise taxes (or we will lower taxes) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Biblical Claims that God Repents Rebut the Idea that God Is Bound by Necessity</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/24/free-will-biblical-claims-that-god-repents-rebut-the-idea-that-god-is-bound-by-necessity/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/24/free-will-biblical-claims-that-god-repents-rebut-the-idea-that-god-is-bound-by-necessity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post continues the series begun here, the to-date-compilation of which is available here.
2.1.2.1.2 That God repents is evidence that God makes things the best, not that He must simply act within some externally defined best.
Even accepting the mistaken idea that there are a finite number of possibilities (too great a limit on God) there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Why One Way People Explain the World without Free Will Underestimates God&#8217;s Sovereignty</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/10/free-will-why-one-way-people-explain-the-world-without-free-will-understimates-gods-sovereignty/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/10/free-will-why-one-way-people-explain-the-world-without-free-will-understimates-gods-sovereignty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still on the second part of the overall journey engaged by this set of posts, this entry attempts to show why a sub-point of the claim that even God acts only within reason (rather than with radical  freedom) results in a fallacious limitation of God&#8217;s sovereignty.
2.1.2.1.1 There is no reason to exclude contingency from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Model to Clarify Truth and Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/08/a-model-to-clarify-truth-and-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/08/a-model-to-clarify-truth-and-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://barrycreamer.com/?p=269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: this post contains dangerously opiatic speculation about truth and intelligence. It is an effort to clarify for myself what I see as a misguided feature of some hermeneutics, some apologetics, and much if not most skepticism. But it simply will not be interesting to people with real lives!
Intelligence can mean many different things: for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whence Evil: God?</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/01/whence-evil-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Hurricanes strike, as Gustav is doing right now, age-old questions are raised again. Some are about how to react and why. But some are more basic, about the source of all kinds of problems persistently faced by man. This post is about that question: from where comes evil?
The first eight and a half lines [...]]]></description>
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