"To make us who we are, he must control our heredity. So he has given us the parents we have, and their parents, and their parents. And to give us the parents we have, God must control many of their free decisions, such as the free decisions of Jeremiah's parents to marry, and their parents, and their parents...
...Negatively, God's purposes exclude many free decisions that would otherwise be possible. Since God had planned to bring Joseph to Egypt, his brothers were, in an important sense, not free to kill him, though at one point in the story they planned to do so...Nor could the Roman soldiers have broken Jesus' legs when he hung on the cross, for God's prophets had declared otherwise." - Frame, ST, p155.
My only thought about this is that Frame doesn't go far enough. How could God have controlled "many of their free decision"? Would He not actually have control of every single free decision we have ever made?
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