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To: grey_whiskers
God knowing in advance everything that could possibly happen, does not preclude him from interfering --

Your point was that God does not interfere in our free will. My point is that unless God interferes with our free will, we cannot be saved. Hence our salvation is not dependent upon our free will, but upon God changing our will to conform to his.

God doesn't simply know your destiny, he has chosen you in him from before the foundation of the earth.

That is the premise upon which you must build your answers to any perceived paradox between your alleged Free Will and God's determined will. To state that God's election is determined by his response to your free will is to render God irrelevant to your salvation.

God chose you in him before he even formed the earth. Start from there.

15 posted on 05/21/2011 9:05:35 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe
Your point was that God does not interfere in our free will. My point is that unless God interferes with our free will, we cannot be saved. Hence our salvation is not dependent upon our free will, but upon God changing our will to conform to his.

Exactly

19 posted on 05/21/2011 10:47:23 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: P-Marlowe
Did you read the excerpt from C.S. Lewis about "the thing was going to be done" ? That seems to cover the predestination.

Cheers!

20 posted on 05/21/2011 11:06:35 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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