patman
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RobE, one more thing...
RobE, one more thing...
You asked how your theology only has the appearance of freewill.
I hope this will explain how.
If I made a clock, the second hand will work according to how I made it. So will the hour and minute hand. Even though they move on their own, their inter workings are exactly as I made. I made it knowing it will tick forward and keep time. I know in an hour from now it will read that it is an hour later.
So I know the future actions of this clock I made, and I caused it to tick. It has no freedom to do anything else because this is how I made it.
Lets say Adam is this clock. And lets say God knows all of the future. The outcome of how Adam was made would be intentional. Had God made Adam a little shorter or Eve a little later, it could have changed everything. But by God acting as he did, knowing it would result how it did, freewill is only an appearance.
Instead of being freedom, it is a machine. Each gear, like a clock, turning in time at the right place to produce an outcome. :dizzy:
I hope this shows how freewill is only an illusion in the true S.V. logic.
RobE, one more thing...
You asked how your theology only has the appearance of freewill.
I hope this will explain how.
If I made a clock, the second hand will work according to how I made it. So will the hour and minute hand. Even though they move on their own, their inter workings are exactly as I made. I made it knowing it will tick forward and keep time. I know in an hour from now it will read that it is an hour later.
So I know the future actions of this clock I made, and I caused it to tick. It has no freedom to do anything else because this is how I made it.
Lets say Adam is this clock. And lets say God knows all of the future. The outcome of how Adam was made would be intentional. Had God made Adam a little shorter or Eve a little later, it could have changed everything. But by God acting as he did, knowing it would result how it did, freewill is only an appearance.
Instead of being freedom, it is a machine. Each gear, like a clock, turning in time at the right place to produce an outcome. :dizzy:
I hope this shows how freewill is only an illusion in the true S.V. logic.