 Eriugena argues in De divina praedestinatione that God, being perfectly good, wants all humans to be saved, and does not predestine souls to damnation. God’s being is His willing and “no necessity binds the will of God”. On the contrary, humans damn themselves through their own free choices: “Sin, death, unhappiness are not from God”. Since God is outside time, He cannot be said to fore-know or to pre-destine, terms that involve temporal predicates. Furthermore, if God’s being is His wisdom, God can be said to have but a single knowledge and hence a “double” predestination cannot be ascribed to Him. Human nature, on the other hand, was created rational, and rationality requires freedom. Human nature is therefore essentially free: “For God did not create in man a captive will but a free one, and that freedom remained after sin” (De divina praedestinatione, 4.6). 