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    It is not the case that The past cannot be changed.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.God's omnipotence, properly understood, entails power over all things without exception, including past states of affairs.
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    • 2.Peter Damian himself argues God could restore Virginia's virginity, implying past states are within divine power to alter.
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    • 3.If omnipotence has no logical exceptions, the fixity of the past is a contingent fact, not a necessary one.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The necessity of the past (necessitas consequentis) is conflated by many medievals with the weaker necessity of consequence (necessitas consequentiae).
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    • 2.Ockham's distinction shows that 'it was the case that p' being now unalterable does not entail p was ever metaphysically necessary.
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    • 3.What is fixed about the past is our epistemic access and causal dependence on it, not its intrinsic ontological immutability.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Past events are immutably present in the divine providential plan.
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    • 2.The divine providential plan is immutable.
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