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The Judge wrote
I find your responses a little confusing. Are you saying that you believe there is an omnimax god but also that there is free will?
If your god is (amongst other things) all-knowing then everything that will happen is predetermined by "him" so further to my question about why any faithful person would prey for intercession at all I also wonder how you square this aspect of the nature of your god with free will?
It seems to me that you cannot have it both ways.
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Its a tough thing to square
Your are speaking of determinism vs. free will - the Christian community is largely divided on this issue.
What I can say is this... from the point of view of prayer at least it might not matter.
Lets assume for sake of argument that praying is helpful.
It doesn't matter whether we choose prayer of our own free will, or if we merely fulfill our destiny and pray - because the result is helpful. So one should just do it and not worry about the mechanics.