[ATLian]

>God has allowed us free will, so that we can make choices and
>out of this we sometimes choose to do evil. The person who
>rapes a child falls into this category...


I don't think "free will" and "an all-kowing god" can exist concurently. If an all-knowing all-powerful god KNOWS that X will hapen at time Y, then that X has to happen at that time Y. If it DOESN'T happen, then god isn't god since the Christian god, by definition, is all-knowing. If it DOES happen, then X had no choice, it happened only because it had to happen, therefore it had no free will of itself.

That's why I say that you can't have both if you're a believer, you have to chose either free will or predestination.