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Freedom, damnation, and the power to sin with impunity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2001

THOMAS TALBOTT
THOMAS TALBOTT
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Willamette University, 900 State Street, Salem, OR 97301
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Abstract

I argue that the idea of a freely embraced eternal destiny in hell is deeply incoherent and implies, quite apart from its incoherence, that we are free both to sin with impunity and to defeat God's justice forever.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 417 - 434
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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