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Here's a really interesting argument for libertarian free will. I found it in Greg Boyd's Satan and the Problem of Evil : If humans lack a logically consistent concept of self determining freedom, What provides the analogical ground by which we can talk about God is gracious self determining freedom? A concept devoid of all experiential content is vacuous. If we assume that it is meaningful to claim that nothing outside gods will caused him to create and interact with the world, That he could have done otherwise, And that his decisions are not capricious, Then we must affirm that we experience something like this sort of freedom. In short, Unless we were free in a self determining sense, We could never meaningfully says that God is (page 70). So what is the argument? Something like the following: A concept is knowable/intelligible only if there is some experience that gives us the content of the concept.  If there was no experience of having something like self-determi...

I have become fascinated by a single thought lately. I began thinking about it last year and have been trying to understand it ever since. The thought is something like this: In order for anyone to know anything, someone must know everything. Expressed more visually: if there is knowledge, there must be KNOWLEDGE. I found the idea in the writings of Cornelius Van Til who writes, “there must be comprehensive knowledge somewhere if there is to be any true knowledge anywhere.” 1 The following, gleaned from something I wrote for a class during my MA, traces some of my thoughts on the matter, in particular, relating the idea to divine foreknowledge and human anxiety. What I want to suggest is that God's exhaustive, comprehensive, complete knowledge of the past, present and future is what makes human knowledge possible. Furthermore, in order for God to know anything, God must know everything, including all future events. Because God knows the future comprehensively, he is able to des...