Faith,
This concept lends strong support to the belief that when god created Adam and Eve with free will, he knew that the fall was inevitable, that he in fact planned for it.
Yes, of course. God is omniscient and omnipotent. He would have planned for all contingencies down to the last moment on earth.
Why would an omniscient god need to plan for contingencies?!
If he's all-knowing then he
knew man would screw up, he knew the fall would happen. He knew it couldn't be any other way, or the notion that god is omniscient is falsified. The logical corollary of an omniscient god is that he knew he was making men flawed, & the fall is falsified. How can man "fall" further in god's view, when he knew they were made fallen?
But this raises another point, why not start with the "fall" already in effect? Why go through the motions of setting someone up in a situation that they
have to fail in (the forbidden fruit)?
Mark
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