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In reply to the discussion: Evangelicals Find Themselves in the Midst of a Calvinist Revival [View all]riqster
(13,986 posts)37. It depends on a literal interpretation
Omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence.
Given those qualities, a supreme being could be completely certain. We, of course, are none of those three things, so we can't gauge God's abilities by our own.
We can infer, but as you point out, the fact that we could sometimes predict our children's activities was by no means complete. Our abilities are not sufficient, but then we don't have to be perfect.
Just our best.
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Problem: some Calvinism says nothing WE do can save us; its only the (random) help from God
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#31
Unless you ordered their lives so it would happen, created the life where it would happen, etc.
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#44
Except that throughout history, we see countless people that are forced to lie in the beds...
trotsky
Jan 2014
#47
Unless God created everything as we are told; including the devil himself. And evil itself.
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#49
Can we? Does conventional theology really hold up? Can we be blamed by God for evil? Is it OUR fault
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#53