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To: xzins; drstevej; OrthodoxPresbyterian
"Middle Knowledge" ~ God knows every potential outcome to a "free will" decision, but God doesn't know exactly which choice you will make until you make it. IOW, God only knows all things potentially and not actually.

These middle knowledge heretics must actually completely deny and ignore large amounts of scripture.

They are also kissing sisters to the Open Theists heretics in that both deny that God knows what your "free will" choice will be until you actually make it. Woody.
167 posted on 08/16/2003 9:34:25 AM PDT by CCWoody (Recognize that all true Christians will be Calvinists in glory,...)
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To: CCWoody
If they assert that God knows all potentialties/contingencies AND that God does NOT know what choice you will make, then they ARE indistinguishable from open theists. (Reading the books of open theism does help.)

This is different than the group that says "God CHOOSES not to look."

I am toying with the idea of "specified intervention" in which God HAS ALREADY PLANNED where to intervene. I don't know anyone else writing on that subject. Do you?

174 posted on 08/16/2003 9:43:20 AM PDT by xzins (In the Beginning was the Word)
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To: CCWoody
Middle Knowledge" ~ God knows every potential outcome to a "free will" decision, but God doesn't know exactly which choice you will make until you make it. IOW, God only knows all things potentially and not actually.

That is not what Middle Knowledge teaches.

It teaches that there are contingents, different results from free will, under different circumstances that God knows in every case.

You guys can never deal with anything as it is actually taught.

549 posted on 08/19/2003 3:12:29 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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