unnecessitated

Updated: May 25, 2025

But the question is, whether all future events will be determined by necessitating causes, or whether they may not be, in part, the free unnecessitated acts of the human mind. This is the question, and let it not be lost sight of in a cloud of logomachy. If all future events are necessitated, then all past events are necessitated.

Albert Taylor Bledsoe - A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

But yet, in direct opposition to the known will of God, he put forth an act of his own free mind, his own unnecessitated will, and plucked the forbidden fruit to gratify his desires. This was his sin—this voluntary transgression of the known will of God.

Albert Taylor Bledsoe - A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory