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Originally Posted by ChainLegacy
I think there's a difference between knowing in a human sense, a 'prediction' sense, what someone will do based on your observations/information about the individual, and 'knowing' in an omniscient sense. The former could be incorrect, regardless of how sure you are, whereas the latter has no possibility of being incorrect. Without even the slightest possibility of your prediction failing, it's reached into the 'destiny' or 'fate' category -
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I think it's all a matter of different levels of complexity. After all, what makes knowing in a human sense different from knowing in an omniscient sense? Isn't it just the difference in knowledge? Think about the amount of knowledge a being who can observe everything can gather about a person.
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yeah, alternatives might exist, but they are predestined to not occur. Doesn't seem much different to me from a deterministic universe.
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The problem I find with your choice of word is that "predestined" in this context may imply that all of your choices were made by something else other than you beforehand.
That's not what I believe. Yes, God knows all of your choices beforehand, but God did not necessarily make all of those choices for you.
With that said, God is certainly capable of making your choices for you, and there are certain things (even many things) that God has predestined. But this goes back to my original post where I stated that I do not believe in absolute free will for any being other than God.