Moreland addresses free will in his article:
“To say that a human is a free will being is to say that humans exercise what is called libertarian freedom. . . . A person’s choice is up to the individual . . . . [One] acts as an agent who is the first cause or ultimate originator of [their] own actions. Moreover, [one’s] reasons for acting do not partially or fully cause [their] actions. . . . Rather, [one’s] reasons are the teleological goals - the purposes or the ends - for the sake of which [one] acts.
Moreland states that “If physicalism is true, then human free will does not exist. Instead, determinism is true. . . . Further, since free acts seem to be for the sake of goals or ends, if physicalism . . . is true, there is no ultimate purpose and thus, there can be no libertarian free acts.”
I have pointed out in past blogs and in my books that it has been the intent of the Spirit of our Creator God to have a personal relationship with us. That has been, and is, His “ultimate purpose.” Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice for us has renewed our ability in repentance to have a dualist interaction, a bidirectional relationship, with the indwelling Holy Spirit.