for a raise, with his mood, he’d tear my head off”; “If we sent the Third Army around the enemy’s right flank, we would prevail.” Clearly, life-and-death decisions are made daily on the basis of the presumed truth of counterfactual statements. Christian theologians have traditionally not disputed that God has knowledge of true counterfactuals and, hence, of the conditional future contingent events they describe. What theologians did dispute, however, was, so to speak, when God
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