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The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does God know our actions before we do them? And if so, do human beings truly have free will? William Lane Craig contends that God’s foreknowledge and human free will are compatible. He demonstrates that the Bible teaches divine foreknowledge of human free acts, and reveals two ways of “reconciling divine omniscience with human freedom.”

foreseeing that he would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel of justification by faith to Abraham in advance. Both God’s foresight and foreknowledge are referred to in Luke’s rendition of Peter’s sermon on Pentecost. Peter proclaims, “This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men” (Acts 2:23). Then citing Psalm 16:8–11, in which David says, “I saw the Lord always before me [prooraō],” Peter comments,
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