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    A God whose knowledge is dependent on contingent human ac... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The compatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom can be defended.

    A God whose knowledge is dependent on contingent human acts is not the metaphysically independent, eternally self-sufficient being of classical theism.

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    • 1.Metaphysical independence requires that a being's existence and nature depend on nothing external to itself.
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    • 2.If God's knowledge of future human acts depends on those acts occurring, God's knowledge causally depends on contingent events.
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    • 3.A being whose essential attributes depend on external contingencies lacks the absolute self-sufficiency classical theism attributes to God.
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    • 1.God's knowledge being about contingent facts need not make God dependent; God can eternally know all possibilities without dependency.
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    • 2.Divine atemporality allows God to know contingent human acts as eternally present without those acts causally determining divine knowledge.
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    • 3.Dependence requires a causal or explanatory priority that mere knowledge-of doesn't establish; knowing a fact differs from depending on it.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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