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Originally Posted by fraleyight
In my opinion, the idea that God can know the future and that all aspects of the future are predetermined means we would really be nothing more than mindless zombies following Gods outcomes. That we are not actually free to choose what we do or how we act.
This is a classic challenge to the idea of choice and prediction. You can also see this in the philosophical literature by looking at Newcomb's Paradox.
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I think calvinism presents huge problem with the idea of love, and evil. If God has already written everything that will happen it would make him responsible for Evil.
There's a difference between something being "written" and something being "known." I can know that a student will fail a test because I know enough about the student. That doesn't mean that I caused the student fail the test or bear responsibility for the student failing.
Calvinists would reject your description as being an inaccurate representation of their belief.
The following is probably more how they would choose to describe their beliefs.
http://www.reformed.org/documents/wc...fs/ch_III.html
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If humans however, have free will and God leaves choices up to us without complete knowledge of the outcome than an inevitable consequence of Free will would be Evil. So I think open theism answers the question "why doesn't God stop all Evil" it would remove all free will.
Thoughts?
Calvinists do not deny free will.