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To: Dayuhan who wrote (38531)	5/25/1999 8:08:00 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

If God is omniscient, then of course he knows what we will do before we do it. First of all, the "true believer" would not only use the pronoun "He", but he would also capitalize it. <g> More to the point: He is also supposed to be all-powerful and all-good. Without elaborating, it should be obvious that the effort to juggle the all-knowingness, the all-goodness, and the all-powerfulness of the Deity creates all kinds of paradoxes. For example, how could an all-good God allow his creations to suffer eternal damnation -- especially if he is also all-powerful? For, if he knows in advance they will misbehave, why did he make them so that they will misbehave? This is where the free will doctrine is usually hauled in, of course. Eventually, in the interests of logic, at least, one has to opt for no more than one of the familiar three attributes. Or, to paraphrase your thought, one has to scrap the whole idea, and start over from scratch. As for the justification by faith vs. justification by works argument, it should be viewed in its historical context, as nihil has pointed out. If buying indulgences is what is meant by "works", then it is not surprising that so many Protestants rejected "works" altogether. Joan