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" How are humans free and morally responsible if their actions are predetermined? Arminians and Open Theists argue that if God predetermines what humans choose to do, then they aren’t free and morally responsible for their actions. Calvinists offer three responses to this. First, while Calvinists grant that there is an element of mystery here, Scripture teaches both that God determines all that comes to pass and that humans are free and morally responsible. For example, Pilate, Herod, and many others are judged to be “wicked” for crucifying Jesus, yet everything they did was according to “the definite plan and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23; cf. 4:27–28). Mystery or not, therefore, out of fidelity to Scripture Calvinists feel compelled to affirm that God predetermines the actions of agents in such a way that the agents themselves remain free and are morally responsible for their actions (this view is called “compatibilistic freedom, "
― Gregory A. Boyd , Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology
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" 1. The nature of freedom. How can we be free and morally responsible for what we do if our future has been settled in God’s mind from all eternity, as both Arminians and Calvinists teach? No one holds that we are morally responsible for events that occurred before we were born, for we have no power to influence the past, and we can’t be morally responsible for events we cannot influence. If God has known from all eternity everything I shall choose to do in the future, however, then the fact that I shall choose something in the future has been settled in God’s mind at every moment in the past. Hence, it seems I have no more power to alter the past-settled fact of what I shall choose than I have to alter any past fact. And it therefore seems I cannot be free to make, or morally responsible for, choices God has eternally known I shall make. For me to be free and morally responsible, the possibility of my choosing otherwise must be real. And since God is omniscient and knows reality exactly as it is, God must know my free future choice as a possibility, not as an eternally settled fact. 2. "
― Gregory A. Boyd , Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology