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    [fullTitle] => The “Dual Sources Account,” Predestination, and the Problem of Hell
    [abstract] => 
W. Matthews Grant's "Dual Sources Account" aims at explaining how God causes all creaturely actions while leaving them free in a robust libertarian sense. It includes an account of predestination that is supposed to allow for the possibility that some created persons ultimately spend eternity in hell. I argue here that the resources Grant provides for understanding why God might permit created persons to end up in hell are, for two different reasons, insufficient. I then provide possible solutions to these two problems, compatible with Grant's account overall, that help show why God might allow hell.

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                    [givenName] => Adam Noel
                    [affiliation] => Wheaton College
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.3096
    [datePublished] => 2021-03-31
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/3096/version/682/2786
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The “Dual Sources Account,” Predestination, and the Problem of Hell

Adam Noel
Wheaton College

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.3096

Abstract

W. Matthews Grant's "Dual Sources Account" aims at explaining how God causes all creaturely actions while leaving them free in a robust libertarian sense. It includes an account of predestination that is supposed to allow for the possibility that some created persons ultimately spend eternity in hell. I argue here that the resources Grant provides for understanding why God might permit created persons to end up in hell are, for two different reasons, insufficient. I then provide possible solutions to these two problems, compatible with Grant's account overall, that help show why God might allow hell.

Keywords: hell

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