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    If God can actualize the undoing of past contingent facts... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A contradictory state of affairs cannot become actualized for good things

    If God can actualize the undoing of past contingent facts, then the modal boundary between 'what was' and 'what cannot be' collapses for good things.

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    • 1.An omnipotent God has no logical constraints; if past-undoing is logically possible, God can actualize it.
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    • 2.If God can undo past evils retroactively, the distinction between 'actually occurred' and 'could not occur' loses meaning.
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    • 3.Divine timelessness means God exists outside temporal sequence, so 'past' and 'future' are equally present to God's will.
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    • 1.Modal collapse requires conflating metaphysical possibility with metaphysical actuality—distinct categories even for God.
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    • 2.A past event's facticity is grounded in what actually happened; God's power over future actualization doesn't alter this status.
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    • 3.If God retroactively undoes X, that *becomes* the actual past—preserving rather than collapsing the necessity/contingency distinction.
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