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To: jo kus; annalex; Cronos; kosta50; Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis; HarleyD; Dahlseide
You are confusing knowledge of an event with arranging an event.

No I'm not. If I am omniscient and I know that if I put you in a position in which you will certainly commit a grievous sin that will send you to hell forever, and I deliberately put you in that position, then there is an active element involved. In other words by my foreknowledge and my own actions in light of that foreknowledge, I am actually and literally arranging for that particular sin to take place.

I am not a Calvinist, but I do not think there is any way of escaping the fact that Judas was specifically chosen for the purpose of betraying the Lord. It was his eternal destiny.

That is pretty scary stuff. But the truth of it cannot be denied.

489 posted on 01/05/2006 9:52:16 PM PST by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe

Because I know the result of a flip of the coin doesn't mean I arranged it.

Regards


523 posted on 01/06/2006 6:37:38 AM PST by jo kus
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