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An offer we can't refuse: guaranteeing universal salvation
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An offer we can't refuse: guaranteeing universal salvation

Blake McAllister
Religious studies, pp.1-18
05/08/2026

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Arts & Humanities Religion
Source incompatibilism allows for a choice to be both determined and free in a libertarian sense so long as the agent had enough of a free hand in shaping the character that determines that choice. I argue that God can capitalize on this possibility to ensure that all freely accept his offer of salvation. He can do so by placing any hold-outs in a remedial version of hell where continued rebellion leads to increasing misery. Through their own free choices, the damned inevitably make themselves so miserable that they determine themselves to repent - a choice which, while guaranteed, remains free.
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