Throughout the early centuries of the church, theology was marked by an emphasis upon the compatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom largely to combat Stoic determinism and astrological fatalism.… God’s control over the future is determined by a foreknowledge of human choices. Divine election is in part a function of this foreknowledge. The manner in which God will determine and govern a human life is fixed by an awareness of the ways in which freedom will be exercised.92 Tertullian
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