One of James White's objections to Molinism

I'm not a Molinist, but I thought of an objection to one of James White's objections to Molinism.  I thought about calling the Dividing Line and talking to him about it, but I'm always at work when the show is happening.  Besides that, he intimidates me.  He can be a little aggressive.

Anyway, a while back, William Lane Craig made the following comments in the context of Molinism:

So there are worlds which are intrinsically possible but which God, given the counterfactuals that happen to be true, is not capable of actualizing and which are therefore, in Flint's terminology, infeasible for God.  Notice that because counterfactuals of creaturely freedom are contingently true, which worlds are feasible for God and which are infeasible is also a contingent matter.  It all depends on how creatures would freely behave in various circumstances, which is beyond God's control.  "The difference between possible and feasible worlds"

The counterfactuals of creaturely freedom which confront Him are outside His control.  He has to play with the hand He has been dealt. "Molinism and the soteriological problem of evil once more"

That last quote especially bothered White.  White, as most Calvinists, has a very strong view of God's sovereignty.  God, in White's view, can do whatever he wants (Daniel 4:35), and he isn't limited by the free will of creatures.  To say that God's hands are tied by the freedom of his own creatures is to make the creature sovereign rather than God.

So here's my objection to White's objection.  Even if we grant that no creature has libertarian freedom, as long as it's possible that there could have been free creatures, then there are some possible worlds in which free creatures exist.  If so, then there are counterfactuals of creaturely freedom that apply to those worlds.  And if so, then God is limited in which world he can create.  He can create this world in which there are no free creatures, but there are other worlds he cannot create, and the reason he can't create them is because of the counterfactuals of creaturely freedom that apply to those worlds.

So even if you grant Calvinism and compatibilism in the actual world, that doesn't undermine the point Craig made.  It would still be the case that God had to play with the hand he had been dealt.  God would still be limited in which possible world he could actualize.

The only way for White to overcome this problem is to say that there are no possible worlds in which there are free creatures.  He would have to argue that libertarian freedom is logically incoherent.

And maybe it is.