What symbols mean for Wolfe

Lee Berman · 26 Nov 2012, 18:48 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:48:14 -0500
Subject: (urth) What symbols mean for Wolfe
Message-ID: <SNT123-W451FC4C52373D803B29A09CF5F0 at phx.gbl>

>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes: There's a passage somewhere where Silk wonders whether "free will" is just
>the privilege of consenting to what is going to happen anyway.

This is in alignment with my own perspective of things. Truly free and independent choice of action
is necessarily a limitation on an all-powerful God's power.

Conversely, the more aware a person becomes of God's Plan the less freedom of action he/she has.

Moreover, a perfect God has no choices at all. There are no forks in the road for God because every 
choice has a "best" solution and thus God's path is pre-determined, single-track and perfect.

Thus free-will..I won't call it an illusion. But it is something which can exist only from a human
perspective, not a divine perspective.

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