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To: Dutchboy88
If you could [choose a particular article of clothing], then God’s foreknowledge is “contingent” upon you actually choosing what He saw.

Yes, and why is this a contradiction of any kind?

202 posted on 06/18/2009 3:39:00 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex

Please read my entire post. If you you can change that “choice” at the last minute to a selection which God was not aware of, then His foreknowledge is faulty. It did not happen as He foreknew. This puts Him in the position of not knowing what will occur tomorrow any more than you or I. After all, tomorrow is comprised of billions of “choices” by billions of people that, according to your view, must be unaffected by anything other than themselves at that moment.

If, OTOH, you cannot choose something He was unaware of, then that selection was “fixed” before you made your “choice” and you were not as “free” as it may have seemed. I don’t argue that you could “feel” this control, or that His management needs to make us “sense” a puppet-like control to be real. This is the great truth about God. He is transcendent, outside of the creation, AND sovereign bringing all things about in order to knit together a result He has pre-planned. That is why Paul can say with confidence, “all things work together for good for those that love God, for those that are called according to His purpose.” Rom. 8. Wonderful confidence. No contingencies.

And, incidentally, the view of the so-called “emerging church” holds a lot of this “contingent” future theology. We repudiate their heretical view of God learning about things along with humans. Their view is born of the attempt to avoid absolute foreknowledge.


221 posted on 06/19/2009 9:06:19 AM PDT by Dutchboy88
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