The impossibility of determinism

It also shows itself to be a contradiction in the fact that no human being, not even the determinist, actually holds this causalism in actual life. "In practical life" nobody believes in absolute determinism; practically everyone presupposes an element of freedom which contradicts the theory of determinism. Finally, pan-causalism, or determinism, is opposed to our moral knowledge of responsibility; if everything happens because it must, then there is no room for responsibility; responsibility can only be maintained by the aid of intolerable sophisms. It is, of course, obvious that this determinism is opposed to the truth of revelation, given to faith.—Emil Brunner, The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption, 171