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To: stuartcr; RobbyS

None of that means that you don’t have free will.

An addicted alcoholic can be predicted to take another drink. That doesn’t mean that he has to.

On the other hand, God is the activating cause of everything.


11 posted on 07/06/2007 9:03:14 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins

Isn’t that prediction made by a man, not God? If God is the activating cause of everything, and He knows what you will do, how is there real free-will? Wouldn’t God knowing what you are going to do, pre-empt your ability to do otherwise, regardless of what you may think you are going to do?


14 posted on 07/06/2007 9:08:40 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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