Is free will determined?

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I am somewhere in the middle on the free will versus determinism ideologies. As a believer in God’s sovereignty, I cannot believe in absolute free will, but as a believer in God’s mercy and justice, I cannot believe in absolute determinist. I believe in a sort of “free within constraints” model, which will obviously have some elements of determinism as well as a tinge of free will.

Willy LJ Van Buggenhout

Have we not been expelled from the earthly paradise because of our free will?