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    God is the first cause and knows all the laws of the world. — Carmelics
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    Supports→The theological contradiction between human free will and divine foreknowledge is resolved by a deterministic description of the world.

    God is the first cause and knows all the laws of the world.

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    This deterministic description of the world (based on rational arguments) resolves the theological problem of the contradiction between the free will of man and the foreknowledge of God. In Crescas’s opinion, free will, in the sense of an originative cause that is itself uncaused, to decide and act does not really exist. God is the first cause and knows all the laws of the world. Therefore, He knows the entirety of that which He has determined.

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