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To: Cronos
"God foreknew both choices -- True. God chose..not to interrupt the free will He gave us. True.

Thank you. I see, like Calvin, you do agree with Scripture on that issue.

"God does not pre-damn people to hell. God gives us free will and God KNOWS what choices we will make and He lets us make them, even if they lead us away from him. Why? I don't know, but I do know that we are not automatons in some macabre cosmic game where some are pre-planned to damnation."

Again, I see you agree with Calvin. (What you are describing is the UNbiblical scriptural interpretations of hyper-Calvinists aka "fatalists".)

You may appreciate these two links below. I think you will agree with me that J.P. Holding has provided some of the best "push-back" against the TULIP arguments made by some Calvinists that you've ever seen.

(PS: I'm more of an Alvin Plantinga Calvinist than most of the others.)

First link

Second link:

Scroll to "Update" at the bottom of the page here, if you want to read the details regarding this statement, first:

"To my surprise there is a name for this view I have proposed, and it is one advocated by various Christian philosophers like [Alvin] Plantinga and [William Lane] Craig, in various forms: it is called libertarianism. ..." [Both Plantinga and Craig are "Calvinists"] [snip]

67 posted on 06/29/2009 7:12:14 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (Obama has entered the "cracking stage" of his presidency. ~ Gagdad)
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To: Matchett-PI

So you do believe that God gave us free will?


68 posted on 06/29/2009 8:35:05 AM PDT by Cronos (Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delendae sunt + Jindal 2K12)
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