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    It is not the case that The theological contradiction between human free will and divine foreknowledge is resolved by a deterministic description of the world.

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    • 1.Determinism dissolves rather than resolves the tension: if agents cannot do otherwise, divine punishment and reward become morally incoherent.
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    • 2.Crescas's own account of will as desire-driven still requires that desires originate in the agent, not solely in prior divine causes.
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    • 3.A God who determines all acts and then judges them conflates authorship with moral responsibility in a way determinism cannot internally justify.
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    • 1.Boethius and Aquinas argued divine foreknowledge is timeless eternal vision, not causal determination, preserving contingency without denying omniscience.
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    • 2.If eternity-based foreknowledge already resolves the tension without determinism, the deterministic solution is neither necessary nor sufficient.
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    • 1.God is the first cause and knows all the laws of the world.
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    • 2.God therefore knows the entirety of that which God has determined.
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    • 3.Free will, understood as an originative cause that is itself uncaused, does not really exist.
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