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Is there a name for the belief that some individuals would always freely reject salvation no matter the world in which they are created?
Thanks to Isaac Middlemiss and Luke Hill's inputs, I can answer my own question. There are at least two relevant terms:
Transworld damnation:
The proposal of transworld damnation is not the doctrine ...
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Is there a name for the belief that some individuals would always freely reject salvation no matter the world in which they are created?
On a quick Google, the idea that those who die unsaved would not have believed no matter what else could have happened is called Transworld damnation. You're not wrong that it is directly related to ...
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Why does God punish us for our will?
Don't worry about the immensity. Christian theology has grappled with "free will" for ages, and after fruitful engagement with modern philosophy, Christian philosophy has produced a logical ...
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Why does God punish us for our will?
Free will--in the sense most Christians believe in it--is misrepresented by Schopenhauer's argument; I will summarize 3 reasons for rejecting this characterization of free will:
It incorrectly ...
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Why does God punish us for our will?
The definition of free will that I and, I would venture to say, most other Christians use is what is called libertarian free will. It can be summed up as the ability to do otherwise, but it means that ...
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Why does God punish us for our will?
OP: What we want at any given moment is determined by who we are and our environment
True. But, if one is religious, one objectively knows whether something is wrong, and can choose not to do it for ...
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