Welcome back to the hashtag STR-R-Sk podcast.

And I just want to remind you that I was thinking about this the other day, Greg.

I think this is the 10th. I think it's been 10 years since this show started. And of course, the first couple years, Melinda was in my place. Yeah, the co-host. And she made me answer questions in two minutes. She had a timer. And it dinged. That's why there's a ding at the beginning of the show. Someday we'll change that music.

But we have so many questions.

If you think about it, we've got like at least 100 a year.

We've probably got almost 1,000 or around 1,000 episodes.

And each episode has two to four questions.

That's how many questions we've answered on our

website. So if you have a question that you've been thinking about, go to our website, do a search,

find out what we've said about it, because we have covered so many things. And yet, we still have

so many more to go. So let's get into our questions. All right. Got it.

This first one comes from Chad. My son is struggling with prayer. He keeps asking, why should we

pray if God already knows what's going to happen? Oh, okay. This is a fair question, but it's,

and it's broader than just the prayer issue, because a lot of people

say, if God knows what's going to happen, then it's going to happen. And therefore, there's

no question that it's going to happen, therefore it necessarily is going to happen, and therefore

there's no freedom. So it's even more expansive than the concern that Chad's son has raised.

There's a philosophical way of explaining this.

In fact, I read once again William King's response to this issue,

and he says there's a violation of modal logic and the thinking, blah, blah, blah. Okay, it's kind of hard for the layman to this issue. And he says there's a violation of modal logic and the thinking,

blah, blah, blah. Okay, it's kind of hard for the layman to understand that. Here's the simplest way

of putting it. Knowing something is going to happen doesn't cause it to happen. Knowing something

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