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    You never had a choice about whether God believed p 1,000... — Carmelics
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    Supports→You are not freely reading this section today (theological fatalism: divine foreknowledge and freedom are incompatible).

    You never had a choice about whether God believed p 1,000 years ago.

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    Here is this line of thought in more detail. First consider an argument for theological fatalism, the view that divine foreknowledge and freedom are incompatible (Pike 1965; Murray & Rea 2008: Ch. 2). God is omniscient. So God knows all that is true and believes nothing false. Now consider the proposition p that you will read this section 1,000 years hence. Suppose p was true 1,000 years ago. Then God believed p then. And you never had a choice about whether God believed p 1,000 years ago. Nor have you ever had a choice about anything that follows from God’s believing p 1,000 years ago, in...

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