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Christians typically believe the following two propositions:

  1. (1)

    God is omniscient

and

  1. (2)

    Human beings are free.

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Notes

  1. Nelson Pike, ‘Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action’, Philosophy of Religion, ed. Steven Cahn (New York: Harper and Row, 1970) pp. 68–88.

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  2. Richard Taylor, ‘Deliberation and Foreknowledge’, Bernard Berofsky (ed.), Free Will and Determinism (New York: Harper and Row, 1966) pp. 277–93.

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Davis, S.T. (1983). Foreknowledge. In: Logic and the Nature of God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06352-9_5

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