decisions. He predetermined everything. He knew all that would be because he ordained its existence and history, effecting his all-inclusive plan that made everything in the created world necessary. Second, another realm entirely is the world of time and space, which began when God brought it into being, actualizing a world that did not previously exist except as he conceived it. In this world, which we human beings inhabit, events actually take place, as occasioned by divine or human action or by