events never happened, so by definition they could not have been predestined. And yet the omniscient God did indeed foresee them. Predestination and foreknowledge are separable. The theological point can be put this way: That which never happens can be foreknown by God, but it is not predestined, since it never happened. But what about things that do happen? They can obviously be foreknown, but were they predestined? Since we have seen above that foreknowledge in itself does not necessitate predestination,