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To: P-Marlowe
If God is dependent on your actions to determine his next step you are god ...not Him
82 posted on 09/13/2002 10:01:15 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
You are back to arguing non-sequiturs.

God is not dependent upon my actions to determine his next step. I never said that. I never implied it. I don't believe it.

He knows everything that has happened or will happened. His foreknowledge of events, however, is not dependent upon my inability to exercise my own free will or his inability to grant such free will to man.

To make God's foreknowledge dependent upon his controling everyone's actions is to reduce God's omnipotence to knowing only those things that he causes. (which consequently makes him the cause of all sin).

That is a significant reduction of God's sovereignty and not an affirmation of it.

85 posted on 09/13/2002 10:07:50 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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