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    God can know the future without this knowledge being grou... — Carmelics
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    Supports→God's foreknowledge is compatible with libertarian freedom.

    God can know the future without this knowledge being grounded on an established, determinate future.

    Divine AttributesFree Will & Foreknowledge
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    Divine AttributesFree Will & Foreknowledge

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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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    Various replies to the freedom-foreknowledge debate have been given. Some adopt compatibilism, affirming the compatibility of free will and determinism, and conclude that foreknowledge is no more threatening to freedom than determinism. While some prominent philosophical theists in the past have taken this route (most dramatically Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)), this seems to be the minority position in philosophy of religion today (exceptions include Paul Helm, John Fischer, and Lynne Baker). A

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