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For the record, I have no problem with someone using AI to help organize a post. What I object to is posting polished filler without...

One thing is to try to figure out how God knows things. Is the knowledge inate or acquired? If there are any scriotures about God...

He did not know that as a settled future fact, because man had not been created yet and Adam had not yet chosen. The future doesn't...

I agree, but knowing an event will occur does mean the event is determined. For instance, I know Jesus will return, but I didn't...

I think that's the heart of the disagreement. I would distinguish between God's knowledge of a choice and God's causation of that...

The point of the thread topic, afaik, is that exhaustive foreknowledge (the usual definition of omniscience), doesn't allow for anyone...

Fair question. My point wasn't to challenge God's omniscience. I fully affirm that God knows all things. What I was trying to address...

Ok. The other reason is that I had difficulty seeing how your post was relevant to the thread topic. Maybe you can give a short...

No, I'm not AI. The ideas come from my own work and study, particularly around grief, identity, suffering, and Christian anthropology...

A near perfect definition of an appeal to tradition fallacy. It is not an inference or an implication. We state it outright that God...

What do you think the gospel was that God was preaching to Abraham? Wasn't the Gospel that death would be defeated and God would raise...

I was referring to Alaska and Hawaii.