Simpletruther
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The libertarian free willer is in a bind here.
The typical attempt to escape is to claim something like "but I had reason for choosing Christ, I felt the burden of my sin" (or some such notion). "And since I had a reason, then it can't be random".
The problem is, at that moment you could have instead rejected Christ because "you wanted sin more" or something like that.
So why did one motivation triumph and result in conversion instead of the other motivation resulting in rejection?
If you offer another reason to explain why one motivation triumphed, it starts to look suspiciously like determinism.
If there is no reason, then the result was ultimately random, this particular result happened "just because".
There is no escaping this dilemma.
The typical attempt to escape is to claim something like "but I had reason for choosing Christ, I felt the burden of my sin" (or some such notion). "And since I had a reason, then it can't be random".
The problem is, at that moment you could have instead rejected Christ because "you wanted sin more" or something like that.
So why did one motivation triumph and result in conversion instead of the other motivation resulting in rejection?
If you offer another reason to explain why one motivation triumphed, it starts to look suspiciously like determinism.
If there is no reason, then the result was ultimately random, this particular result happened "just because".
There is no escaping this dilemma.