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    Challenges→God does not give graces by particular volitions

    God's omniscience includes perfect foreknowledge of how free creatures will respond to any given grace.

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    • 1.God's knowledge is not temporal but eternal, viewing all moments simultaneously, so foreknowledge doesn't causally determine future choices.
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    • 2.Free will requires only absence of external coercion, not metaphysical independence from God's knowledge of what we'll freely choose.
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    • 3.An omniscient being must know all truths, including counterfactuals about how free creatures respond to grace in any scenario.
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    • 1.If God infallibly knows in advance what choice you'll make, that choice cannot be genuinely free—it's determined by prior facts.
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    • 2.Counterfactual knowledge of free acts seems logically impossible: there's no fact of the matter about what a free agent would do pre-creation.
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    • 3.Perfect foreknowledge eliminates the openness required for free will; creatures cannot do otherwise than God eternally knew they would.
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    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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