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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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