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To: apackof2
That's ridiculous, just knowing what someone will do before hand doesn't their negate free will, knowing isn't interference or control

If God knows all you will do BEFORE you are born, you have no free will to do other than what he has already planned for you to do. Doing otherwise would mean that God was not God.

257 posted on 08/18/2005 7:41:21 PM PDT by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: WildTurkey
other than what he has already planned for you to do

Its obvious that you don't read the posts but have a pre-fab answer

So I'll try to explain for the last time so even you can understand it

Fore knowledge is just the knowledge of an event before it occurs

IT IS NOT planning, interferring or controlling...its just KNOWING

Free will is....just that... free

free adj. fre·er, fre·est

Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty.
Not controlled by obligation or the will of another: felt free to go.
Not subject to arbitrary interference
Not affected or restricted by a given condition or circumstance
Not subject to a given condition
Not subject to external restraint
Costing nothing; gratuitous: a free meal
Publicly supported: free education
Not taken up by scheduled activities
Unobstructed; clear: a free lane.

283 posted on 08/18/2005 7:57:06 PM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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To: WildTurkey
If God knows all you will do BEFORE you are born,you have no free will to do other than what he has already planned for you to do.

Nonsense. That God always knows what I do does not imply that God planned it.

Your problem is that you fail to grasp that God is not constrained by time. In that sense, it is not technically correct to say he knew about something before I did. He simply knows, not before, not after, but just knows at all times and all places everything. He transcends time.

320 posted on 08/18/2005 8:15:36 PM PDT by curiosity (.)
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