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It’s a Wonderful Life

October 5, 2011 - 6:28 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Charles
2011-10-07 16:55:05

3. Teresita
Some believers will object that this limits God, who can “see the end from the beginning” according to the scriptures, but we do not ask God to do impossible things, like create a four-sided triangle or a billiard ball that is all black and all white. The future does not and cannot exist, so even God can be forgiven for not knowing it. And this, in turn, guarantees that our will is always free.
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This presumes too much on God.

God is sovereign over the Universe. Man has free will.

These is tension between these two propositions. Call it a paradox if you will.

This dynamic tension lies at the heart of the dynamism of western civilization.