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    It is not the case that Augustine's rejection of human freedom apart from divine control was not motivated by the fatalist argument from divine foreknowledge.

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    • 1.Augustine's extended treatment of foreknowledge in City of God V.9-10 reveals he took the fatalist challenge seriously enough to require systematic refutation.
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    • 2.A thinker who regards an argument as a 'complete failure' typically dismisses it briefly rather than devoting sustained theological architecture to its resolution.
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    • 3.The conceptual framework Augustine develops to rebut foreknowledge fatalism—eternal present, divine timelessness—directly shapes his account of grace and predestination.
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    • 1.Rist and TeSelle have argued that Augustine's anti-Pelagian writings show the foreknowledge problem and grace problem were treated as structurally inseparable doctrinal concerns.
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    • 2.If divine foreknowledge and divine grace both entail that human choices are fixed antecedently, distinguishing their motivational roles in Augustine's rejection of libertarian freedom becomes analytically unstable.
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    • 1.Augustine regarded the fatalist argument from divine foreknowledge as a complete failure.
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    • 2.Augustine's rejection of human freedom was motivated by considerations of divine grace rather than foreknowledge.
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