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Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty & Human Freedom is unavailable, but you can change that!

If God is in control, are people really free? This question has bothered Christians for centuries. And answers have covered a wide spectrum. Today Christians still disagree. Those who emphasize human freedom view it as a reflection of God’s self-limited power. Others look at human freedom in the order of God’s overall control. David and Randall Basinger have put this age-old question to four...

that his specific goals will be accomplished. Both see God’s decision to give people freedom as imposing significant limitations on his control of earthly affairs. They differ, however, on the degree to which they see human freedom “limiting” divine control. They disagree, for example, on the very important question of whether God knows exactly what will happen in the future. Reichenbach affirms that God has such knowledge. God is never surprised. He always knows what will occur in the world. Pinnock
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