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can an ordinary god predict future?

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can an ordinary god predict future?
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RE: can an ordinary god predict future?
August 22, 2010 at 9:19 am
(August 22, 2010 at 8:33 am)fr0d0 Wrote: If Christians agree that God knows everything & that is determinism then yes.

wikipedia Wrote:Deism, a philosophy articulated in the seventeenth century, holds that the universe has been deterministic since creation, but ascribes the creation to a metaphysical God or first cause outside of the chain of determinism. God may have begun the process, Deism argues, but God has not influenced its progression
interesting re christians. So would It follow that if the universe was underministic that Christianity was false? Or is there a get of jail card on this?

Understnad the definition of deism, however it doesn't necessarily follow that all deists are determinists. Just wondered if you had a view?
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
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can an ordinary god predict future? - by annatar - August 21, 2010 at 9:57 pm
RE: can an ordinary god predict future? - by Welsh cake - August 22, 2010 at 3:41 am
RE: can an ordinary god predict future? - by annatar - August 22, 2010 at 1:52 pm
RE: can an ordinary god predict future? - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 5:50 am
RE: can an ordinary god predict future? - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 6:26 am
RE: can an ordinary god predict future? - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 8:33 am
RE: can an ordinary god predict future? - by Captain Scarlet - August 22, 2010 at 9:19 am
RE: can an ordinary god predict future? - by fr0d0 - August 22, 2010 at 10:12 am

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