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God in Eternity and Time: A New Case for Human Freedom is unavailable, but you can change that!

When theology begins with God’s eternal will and knowledge, determinism tends to result. In God in Eternity and Time, eminent scholar Robert Picirilli argues we should look first to God’s creation and the incarnation—to the created order where God has chosen to act and reveal himself. As God’s decrees and foreknowledge in eternity are then read in light of his acts in time, God’s interactions...

in time and space narrated in the Bible, on the other. Instead of seeing an intersection, an identity of meaning shared by them, they build theology around the first and interpret the second to match. In effect, if not consciously, the question becomes, How can we view these events narrated in the Bible, when God is acting and interacting with us in time and space, in a way that will accord with what our theology tells us about God’s decrees and knowledge in eternity? This approach leads to questions
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