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    It is not the case that Molinism posits middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, which are contingent yet outside God's direct causal control.

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    • 1.Counterfactuals of creaturely freedom lack truth-makers independent of God; God must causally ground their truth or they're undefined.
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    • 2.Middle knowledge remains metaphysically obscure—unclear how God cognizes facts about unrealized possible worlds without determining them.
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    • 3.If creatures are truly free, their counterfactual truths depend on their own natures, not God's knowledge, making middle knowledge superfluous.
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    • 1.God's omniscience requires knowledge of all truths, including counterfactual truths about what free creatures would do in any circumstance.
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    • 2.Divine omnipotence and human freedom are compatible only if God knows free choices without determining them through causal control.
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    • 3.Middle knowledge explains how God can infallibly foreknow contingent events while preserving genuine creaturely libertarian freedom.
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