Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of Creation, Part 11.

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Last time, we discussed three competing accounts of divine providence.

Calvinism, which posits a universal divine three competing accounts of divine providence.

Calvinism, which posits a universal, divine, causal determinism,

coupled with a compatibilist view of human freedom.

Armenianism, which postulates human freedom, libertarian freedom, coupled with simple foreknowledge of the future,

so that God foreordains or predestants what he knows

via his foreknowledge will take place.

And finally, we looked at the Molinist view of Providence,

according to which God knows what any free person would freely do

in any set of circumstances in which God might place him.

And thus, by choosing to create certain persons in certain circumstances,

God can so providentially order the world

that his purposes are ultimately achieved through the free decisions of creatures.

Now before we give a critical assessment of these three competing models of divine sovereignty and human freedom,

let me ask if there is any

question left

from last week of a comprehension

nature about these

three views. We're not interested now

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