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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding of "God's will" vs "bad things" is that God gave us free will even though, in His omniscience he knew all the bad things that would come from it, because He knew it was better for us (all of humanity) to endure these bad things than to be puppets. Our free will allows us to make choices. He knows what choices we will make because the past and the future are all one to Him, but they are our choices. For the record, I'm an atheist (NP), but I try to understand how an intelligent believer would make sense of the issue of free will vs predetermination. [/quote] There is free will and then there is God's will - two different things, both biblical concepts which I do not pretend to understand in any depth, except to know they are not the same thing. It seems that NP atheist directly above is conflating them[/quote] I didn't read it that way. I thought it was a pretty good explanation. [/quote]
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