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WLC, Free Will, and God's divine foreknowledge

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WLC, Free Will, and God's divine foreknowledge
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RE: WLC, Free Will, and God's divine foreknowledge
March 31, 2017 at 10:33 pm
(March 21, 2017 at 6:38 am)mh.brewer Wrote: I agree with the OP: omniscient god and free will are incompatible.

(March 21, 2017 at 8:04 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: This all stems from the incoherence of the Christian conception of free will.  If you have a concept that can't be explained, practically anything can be made to seem consistent with it.  The devil is in the details, which in Christian free will, there are none.

I agree with this. The premise is that free will is something gods can grant, rather than a natural state of being humans. We can figure stuff out. 

OP's analysis is very well constructed. It was fun to follow the logic. Well said.
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RE: WLC, Free Will, and God's divine foreknowledge - by Nanny - March 31, 2017 at 10:33 pm

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