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... thereby eliminating one's free will. Since our actions are "forced" by God's divine omniscience they are not of our own volition, which leads to the assertion that God has no moral right to provide us with a reward (heaven). Conclusively, since the existent God's moral right is nominal in this scenario, Heaven as a form of moral reward cannot exist. Provided that premises 1 through 4 are correct, it would follow that the conclusion should be logically correct as well. Yet, the conclusion is implausible. The fallacy within this argument surrounds premise 3, pertaining to God's omniscience which contradicts the supposed free will of man. If we examine this same issue from another perspective, a different inference can be contrived. Let us assume that a specific action is to be taken. We can [assert] the following: (1) God is omniscient, (2) God knows what action is taken from 1, (3) If ...
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