(predestined) it. But that is to confuse knowledge with an active cause and so in effect to take away contingency. God’s foreknowledge, in the sense of prescience,6 is part of His omniscience and includes all things as certain, both good and evil, contingent and necessary. It is not in itself causal. Furthermore, God’s foreordination of events is not necessary for His foreknowledge of them, at least not in the limited way such a statement implies. In fact, He eternally knows all the possibilities,