re: United Methodist Church special session this week

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That's conflating foreknowledge (knowing who would accept and who would reject) with predestination. That's what Calvin does in his teachings (especially in the areas of Limited Atonement and Irresistible Grace). Whereas traditional theology teaches that though God does know who will accept and who will reject His Gift, he does not force anyone to do so, so if they reject they are condemned by their own actions.

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That is an irrelevant distinction for a god who is alleged to be omnipotent.

At the very least it would make him an a-hole. I'd argue, and win, that he's the most sadistic being imaginable.