Episode 47, Free Will and Divine Determinism with Aku Visala
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
Is Freedom Really Compatible With Being Determined by God?
views like divine determinism have been quite popular. Traditionally they have been perhaps almost a standard view, which might be surprising for some contemporary people to think in these ways. The idea is that the world can only go in one direction: It can just go the way that god has created it. There's nothing really that can stop god doing from what wants to do, or because there's no greater thing in the world that can resist god. And so luther himself used this idea of of god's omnipotence and god's knowledge as an basis for arguing for divine determinism.
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