Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Equilibrium free will or libertarian free will is described as a scale perfectly balanced. Like the scale has no visible movement on one side or the other so equilibrium free is making a choice without being forced by any power. The philosophical question is how a deliberate choice is objectively determined if it comes from a non choice. If the visible scale is not moving it is not a choice. Equilibrium is the display of no visible movement so no object is determined or necessary. But a determined choice is evidenced when the body moves toward the principal object. We are accurately describing how we use appropriate language in a mathematically common sense way.

In order for one to make a choice he must desire one thing over the other. He also desires not to enjoy a thing at the expense of the other. The world was produced through Gods creative act. Desire must precede choice as the necessary reason for the choice. The scale that is balance is displaying no movement. When we are talking about free choice in the conventional language, it is a choice that comes from a moral necessity. We can discuss desire like a standard weight that produces movement. But libertarians describe a choice that comes from no necessity or reason. This is why we suffer no problem saying that God determines whatsoever comes to pass because nothing can exist without a prior necessity. The reason that we choose one thing over another is because we desire that thing not because it was without any compulsion. The choice is the success of the desire and not exercised from a non biased position.

 Our choice and Gods choice are not equal. There is only one God. God creates all things by His will. He not exclusively creates all things, but He sustains all things by His choice. He does the work of establishing second causes as well. And yet we choose exactly what we desire, which God created.

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