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God's Foreknowledge

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The question

Does God know the future of humans (to be righteous or a sinner)? Will this interfere with the freedom that God has given to man?

The answer

God does not impose His divine foreknowledge on our free will. With incomprehensible love, He desires that all be saved, but still allows us to exercise our free will even in our own salvation.

http://www.suscopts.org/messages/lectures/soterlecture5.pdf

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