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   Chris Fisher on February 5, 2007 at 10:11 am

   I agreed with this statement about the difference between free will and free agency but I disagree with the metaphysics of the thinking about God and creating, example”If God knows the end from the beginning exhaustively then He knows who will be saved even prior to creating them.” I would disagree with this in form but not in concept, If God knows who will be saved before He creates them “physically” then yes I agree but the very point of conception of a person upon the sovereign decision to create would at that moment create the entire history of that person because God would have to know everything about them to make them or else they would be forced to make themselves throughout all time which they don’t have the authority or the power to do. The very conception of the person would in essence be creating their entire history, because God knows exhaustively the consequence of His own actions which are true free actions. But He also must actually carry out the consequences himself and make them to happen because they are happening and being sustained by His will alone, if he were to stop willing the creation to go forward then it would cease, so He must make all history exhaustively because the created thing has no power to will the furtherance of history anymore then it gets to decide what it will be when it is born. email me your thoughts