In Defense of Libertarian Free Will

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

Baptist, Atonement, Reformed, Bible, Religion & Spirituality, Calvinism, Biblical, Arminianism, Calvin, Christianity, Christian

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Flowers engages with Tyler Vela's "Freed Thinker" podcast titled "The Fragility of Libertartian Incompatiblism" (here: http://freedthinkerpodcast.blogspot.com/) to demonstrate the fallacious way in which some Calvinists attempt to dismiss Libertarian Free Will in favor of omni-determinism.

Here is the clip from the show referenced where Tyler admits that LFW is actually more popular with Christian Philosophers: https://youtu.be/NtCNBrmw91c?t=3979

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to Sociology 101.
0:14.0	Today we're going to be confronting an argument recently released by Tyler Vela on the free thinking or the free thinker, the freed thinker.
0:24.0	I get confused with Tim Stratton's free thinking argument.
0:27.5	The freed thinker, both of which, by the way, Tim Stratton and Tyler are both very intelligent guys.
0:34.3	They are on opposite spectrums on this particular issue, obviously, but both of them philosophers and very smart individuals, smarter than I ever hope to be.
0:43.2	But nevertheless, I can still see, I think, the error in Tyler's arguments in this particular broadcast is what we're going to go over today, where he attacks
0:54.4	libertarian free will by calling it the fragility of libertarian incompatibilism.
1:00.4	Now, keep in mind that Calvinist hold to what is called compatibilism.
1:04.3	And defined compatibilism is that a person is free and thus morally responsible as long
1:10.3	as they're doing what they want to do while ignoring why they want to do it.
1:14.1	In other words, the reason that people want to do what they want to do is because God decreed for their desires, their nature to be such that they could not have wanted otherwise.
1:21.6	Libertarian freedom, on the other hand, is a source freedom. In other words, the source ultimate factor, the deciding factor of your moral choices
1:30.5	is you.
1:31.6	You, the cause of an action is an actor.
1:35.5	The cause of a choice is the chooser.
1:37.5	The cause of determination is the determiner.
1:39.8	We don't go beyond that.
1:41.3	In other words, the source, the factors are within the agent's control.
1:46.2	You are the source of your choices, not something outside yourself, i.e. the decree of God.
1:50.9	So libertarian freedom is not just the ability to do otherwise, which would be sufficient as a definition.
1:56.8	It's also the concept and idea or overarching the concept and idea that you're not making decisions or choices that are beyond your control, that you do have within your nature the capacity to choose otherwise with regard to the moral choices that you make.
2:12.7	So if Christ was offered, if the appeal was made to you and you rejected the gospel offer,
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