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    You are not freely reading this section today (theologica... — Carmelics
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    You are not freely reading this section today (theological fatalism: divine foreknowledge and freedom are incompatible).

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    • 1.God is omniscient, so God knows all that is true and believes nothing false.
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    • 2.If the proposition p (that you will read this section 1,000 years hence) was true 1,000 years ago, then God believed p then.
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    • 3.You never had a choice about whether God believed p 1,000 years ago.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    SEP: eternity

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