Theological Theses · §1979 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Some Reformed answer more loosely: foreknowledge brings a necessity, but not of coaction or physical determination

Some Reformed teachers answer the difficulty in a still simpler and less precise way. They say that God's foreknowledge does bring a certain necessity upon all future things, but that not every necessity is at odds with freedom. Only necessity arising from compulsion or from physical determination conflicts with it.

Latin

XXVIII. Simplicius autem adhuc & confusius ad hanc difficultatem respondent ex Doctoribus Reformatis nonnulli, Dei praescientiam rebus omnibus futuris necessitatem quidem aliquam inducere, sed non omnem necessitatem cum libertate pugnare; verum illam duntaxat quae est a coactione, aut a determinatione Physica.

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