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Originally Posted by arloiginla
Foreknowledge and predestination are two completely different concepts.
That's not mentioning anything about the free will of man.
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Ah Free Will...or is that Willy?
One can see a benevolent god overseeing a suffering world that, for religious people, necessitates this theory of free will. Your God is therefore not the author of evil, and so is not responsible for it.
So lets imagine that you use it to justify your inability to stop a crime from being committed. If you were able to prevent a brutal rape, but instead allowed it to take place, then you could not justify your inaction using the free-will defence. If you were to say that although you think you could have prevented the rape, you thought it best to protect the free-will of the rapist by allowing him to carry out his plan, then you could have and likely would be judged to have made a moral error.
Why, if this argument would be unacceptable coming from a human being, should we think it is more acceptable coming from your God?