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    If God foreknew human actions, then human choice between ... — Carmelics
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    If God foreknew human actions, then human choice between good and evil would not be genuinely free

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    Moreover, Ibn Daud makes use of a fourfold division of causes that he found in Halevi (Kuzari V.20): besides necessary causes that God knows as necessary, there are natural and incidental causes that are entrusted to secondary causes. The fourth category consists of free causes or “causes due to choice”, thanks to which man is free to choose between good and evil. In other words, God has no foreknowledge as regards human action. This rather drastic conclusion is quite unusual in Jewish philosoph

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