RE: Intercessory prayer is pointless
September 28, 2018 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2018 at 1:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 28, 2018 at 11:32 am)SteveII Wrote: Nope. I am a Molinist (God's middle knowledge lets him see what people will freely choose to do). Free will lives on.
You are asserting that God caused the cancer. It might be that you simply chose to smoke or go to the beach. So, I don't accept that God caused any cancer. Actually that's not a belief that Christians generally hold (if at all)--so it is a straw man argument.
Did god not design the beach, or smokes, or sun, or the human body...or cancer? You don't like to accept gods responsibility for this world..but that doesn't mean that you don't believe in it.
As to free will living on because you're a molinist..yeah...sure, compatibilist free will, lol..which makes a mockery of god as a just agent and free will as free.
"Middle knowledge" in no way argues against theological fatalism...it confirms it, necessarily.
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