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Often appears with: fate, destiny, and necessity · will, choice, and freedom · providence and divine governance · translation of souls · timeless knowledge · sweet and salt waters · submission of human reason · ships and navigation for provision · religious persecution and toleration · religious law vs gospel preaching · rahab in heaven · prayer and worship
Usually: argument (3) · reflection (2) · indignation (2) · reverence (2) · crisis of belief (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1) · wonder (1)
“If the future is certain, there is no such thing as luck. But he wrongly adds: 'Est autum fortuna; rerum igitur fortuitarum nulla praesensio est.' There is luck, therefore future events cannot be foreseen.” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von, Theodicy · insight
“Thus the Socinians cannot be excused for denying to God the certain knowledge of future events, and above all of the future resolves of a free creature.” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von, Theodicy · precept
“Wherefore let us soar, if we can, to the heights of that Supreme Intelligence; for there Reason will see what in itself it cannot look upon; and that is in what way things whose occurrence is not certain may yet be seen in a sure and definite foreknowledge; and that this foreknowledge is not conjecture, but rather knowledge in its supreme simplicity, free of all limits and restrictions.” Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy · insight
It states that every change to a person’s life is recorded in a divine book, then describes the contrasting natures of sweet and salt waters and how human use of both yields sustenance and ornament.
with His knowledge. And no-one groweth old who groweth old, nor is aught lessened of his life, but it is recorded in a Book, Lo! that is easy for Allah. S: And Allah created you of dust, then of the life-germ, then He made you pairs; and no female bears, nor does she bring forth, except with His knowledge; and no one whose life is lengthened has his life lengthened, nor is aught diminished of one's life, but it is a…
Rahab’s name and story are used as an example of how divine foresight arranges events and places souls in the appropriate heaven, while the speaker also criticizes corruption of church leadership and legalistic worship at Rome.
Revolving Nature, which a signet is To mortal wax, doth practise well her art, But not one inn distinguish from another; Thence happens it that Esau differeth In seed from Jacob; and Quirinus comes From sire so vile that he is given to Mars. A generated nature its own way Would always make like its progenitors, If Providence divine were not triumphant. Now that which was behind thee is before thee;…
Leibniz claims his system of determinacy and general harmony resolves foreknowledge: God sees the whole connected sequence, so effects follow their causes with certainty despite contingency and freedom.
*Sed Te* *Nos facimus, Fortuna, Deam, caeloque locamus,* but even in relation to God and to the nature of things. Consequently it would be impossible to foresee events by judging of the future by the past. He adds fittingly in the same passage: 'Qui potest provideri, quicquam futurum esse, quod neque causam habet ullam, neque notam cur futurum sit?' and soon after: 'Nihil est tam contrarium rationi et constantiae, q…
Boethius argues that God’s certain foreknowledge would remove free will and make justice, prayer, and hope pointless; Philosophy continues by discussing how divine foreknowledge differs from temporal necessity.
'And what is that?' said she; 'yet, in truth, I can guess what it is that troubles you.' 'It seems,' said I, 'too much of a paradox and a contradiction that God should know all things, and yet there should be free will. For if God foresees everything, and can in no wise be deceived, that which providence foresees to be about to happen must necessarily come to pass. Wherefore, if from eternity He foreknows not only w…
Philosophy argues that Divine Intelligence knows the future from a simple, non-temporal viewpoint, not by conjecture, so human reason should submit to divine knowledge rather than treat it as like human foresight.
judgment. In a dispute of this sort, should not we, in whom is planted the faculty of reasoning as well as of imagining and perceiving, espouse the cause of Reason? 'In like manner is it that human reason thinks that Divine Intelligence cannot see the future except after the fashion in which its own knowledge is obtained. For thy contention is, if events do not appear to involve certain and necessary issues, they ca…