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+title: God and Free Will
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+This article was inspired by a post on
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+[r/LatterDayTheology](https://www.reddit.com/r/LatterDayTheology/comments/1ixy1vo/what_cant_god_the_father_do/).
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+# Summarize this post into a single paragraph as an explanation for the rest of this article, please, AI!
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+It's sometimes said that our conception of God is "maxipotent" rather than "omnipotent", since there are things our theology contemplates that God cannot do.
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+Does it come down to just this:
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+God can't exercise the agency of an otherwise independent intelligence while preserving the independence of the intelligence?
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+God can't produce theosis in humankind without the aggregate quantum of suffering we observe?
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+The first is a logical impossibility, the equivalent of saying God can't make a square without four 90 degree corners. I doubt anyone, Nicene or otherwise, considers this sort of thing a limitation on God's omniscience.
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+So, is it really just the second? And isn't the second a sort of logical impossibility, as well, if theosis is produced by an independent agent overcoming adverse matter?
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+# End summary, AI