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Near the end of #ThatAllShallBeSaved, David Bentley Hart adds additional criticisms of the free will defense of hell by #infernalists and against sounds similar to reformed predestination (which he ridicules throughout the book).
#DBHart argues that true freedom does not mean the ability to arbitrarily choose from any outcome, and it does mean the ability to always choose what is good.
He then does a good job of explaining that God is not a being independent from existence, like Zeus wandering about Mt. Olympus. Hart quotes the #panentheism prooftext (Acts 17:28) to demonstrate that god is bound up with creation (although without affirming/denying pantheism)
He then does a good job explaining that god existence is philosophically connected to goodness in general, and therefore true freedom ultimately would be an unwavering affirming of god, which is god.
So it is nonsensical to David Bentley Hart that anyone creature would not ultimately and finally choose what is good, and therefore the only freedom is to choose god.
