How would you reconcile that with Romans 8, which says outright that God predestined people to salvation?
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Physical determinism and free will are perfectly compatible.
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Interesting discussion, but I think he uses a false dichotomy about the Armenian take on free will.
Here is my feeble attempt to reconcile issue of predestination.
If you have children or plan to in the future, wouldn't you purpose in your heart, before they're born, that they would be conformed to an image. Most parents desire to raise their off spring to be good, moral, kind hearted, truthful. Yet in reality children will stray or outright rebel from the image parent has purposed for them from the beginning. And as parents we never abandoned our desire for the child to be in harmony with parents will towards good.
For me it seems God purposed in his hearts before foundation of the world for those whom he created to be conform to highest good...the image of Jesus Christ. God desired this long before the child comes of age to know or acts upon influence of good and/or evil.
Never once will God grow weary to bring, or call his children back, nor to forgive them, to justify them, to restore or glorify those who want to be in harmony with His will.
Hope is helps in some small way.
That makes sense, but the text of Romans 8 specifically mentions that God predestined people to follow him and then called them and then justified them and then sanctified them