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Sure. Why does that matter? He surely knows there will be some saints, so He predestinated them to something, as befitting saints...

I always liked Bob's analogy: A woman needs to use her husband's car, so she gets in the driver's seat and pulls down the visor where...

Contrast two people... 1. The man who avoids the cliff's edge because he loves his life, wishes to preserve it and therefore avoids...

Foreknowledge about whom, predestination to what. You're conflating things. I can't tell whether the foreknowledge precedes or is...

If they are known, then they must have been determined. If they are foreknown, they must have been predetermined. That's how language...

It's not just scholars. The average pew-sitting Calvinist often just absorbs the doctrine without deeply wrestling with its...

And therefore already determined. I'm open to your suggestions about who is doing the determining, as long as that individual exists at...

What is forbidden is that we place ourselves under the law. Just as Adam was forbidden to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and...

But I don't see why a warning doesn't convey a command, just like "or you will die" was a warning, where God forbade them to eat of the...

I think I typo'd. Pretty sure I was distracted by something while I was writing my reply. Allow me to correct and clarify. Not quite...

What is a 1% free will?? Are you saying that God makes 99 out of every 100 choices for us?

All scholars are open theists in practice. They have to be, or they would never do anything. Nobody in practice thinks, "I'm eating this...

Do I understando you correctly? The forbadence is only to those under the law? Yes, agreed. Why would you be interested in fulfilling...