Answer the following questions with five sentences minimum for each question
1. What do you make of the claim that many who are generationally poor or who are in abuse situations are not free to save themselves out of that situation? Would this idea change your attitudes toward such individuals?
2. Which of the following positions best fits your sense of human freedom: hard determinist, compatibility, free will libertarian, or indeterminist? Why?
3. Take a position in the Calvinist-Arminian debate and argue for it biblically and philosophically evaluate the author's argument that the Apostle Paul's predestination language was after-the-fact language. What do you make of the author's argument that foreknowledge need not imply predestination?
4. Are you consistent in your view of predestination and free will? Do you think your sense of punishment and discipline or sense of government and legislating ethics fir together? Defend your position.