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Bible Bob wrote:
>>>He knew all the options and
>>>which option you would choose to take.
Grinder wrote:
>>Ok, that's better. God knows which choice I will make. So, I ask you
>>again, if God knows what I'll eat for breakfast tomorrow, how can I
>>choose something different, when that choice rolls around, without
>>making Him wrong?
Bible Bob wrote:
> Simple. You chose what you want for breakfast. God has no control
> over what you chose; only what you will chose for breakfast. There is
> no chosing something different for you. You are going to chose what
> you chose because that is what you do. Nothing you can do can make
> him wrong.
That is the very premise that *fixes* my choices, and excludes the
possibility of free will. If God knows what choice I'm going to make at
a give decision point, then I'm not free to make any other choice.
I will reiterate, because it does not seem to be getting through to you,
that this does not necessitate that God is *controlling* my actions. It
is only required that my choices be fixed in order that they might be
*perfectly* known *in advance.*
> He knows what you will do but what he knows you do not
> know and he does not intervene to cause you to chose one way or the
> other.
Fine, I wish you could get off of this. See my remarks above as to why
I'm not claiming that an omniscient God must be all-controlling.
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