Some people are attracted to this idea:
- God gives infinitely many chances for everyone to be saved.
At the same time, by and large (with the main exception being Origen) the Christian tradition accepts:
- Whether you are saved or not is determined at the time of death.
It’s interesting to note that if you deny Causal Finitism, you can have both (1) and (2). You can suppose, for instance, that God miraculously sets up a supertask for you in the millisecond prior to death, miraculously accelerating the functioning of your soul in such a way that in the first half millisecond you have one choice whether to be saved or not, in the next quarter millisecond you have another choice, in the next eighth you have another, and so on. And then you’re saved if any of these infinitely many choices was made for God, and damned only if all them were against God.
While I buy Causal Finitism, and hence probably have to deny the conjunction of (1) and (2) since on (1) and (2) your state post-death appears to be determined by infinitely many causes (the choices), I think this is a somewhat attractive reason to deny Causal Finitism.
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