If God knows that a person will not believe, what is the status of “believing” considered as an act?
Obligation Beyond Capacity: Possibility, Ability, and Moral Judgment
- Belief remains coherent in itself, although this person’s belief will not occur
- Certain nonoccurrence automatically makes the nature of the act self-contradictory
- Foreknowledge necessarily removes the addressee’s ordinary capacity
- After a report of nonoccurrence, a command to believe becomes only a predictive report