Relationship between human freedom and determinism

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The verbal plenary view of biblical inspiration holds that all the words of Scripture are supernaturally inspired by God such that they are fully the words of human authors and fully the words of God himself. In this article, I argue that the verbal plenary view of inspiration requires a compatibilistic view of human freedom. In other words, for the verbal plenary view of inspiration to be true, human freedom must be compatible with God determining human choices and actions. In what follows, first, I explain verbal plenary inspiration (VPI) and provide motivation for affirming it. Second, I discuss the differing views on the relationship between human freedom and determinism, namely, compatibilism and incompatibilism. Third, I test VPI against three incompatibilist models of divine providence-Responsivism, Open Theism, and Molinism-in order to show that incompatibilism is inconsistent with VPI. I conclude by showing that compatibilism is a necessary component to VPI.

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