catholic doctrine of predestination in article may athos rutgers edu noye midway uchicago edu writes really you may be right but i d like proof as far as i know and i am not a div school student the catholic church does not seem to accept predestination my chaplain told me beware of greeks bearing gifts with reference to this doctrine it seems to have the curious result that human beings are not held responsible for their own actions i ll answer how you deal with this in a minute the catholic doctrine of predestination does not exclude free will in any way since god knows everything he therefore knows everything that is going to happen to us we have free will and are able to change what happens to us however since god knows everything he knows all the choices we will make in advance god is not subject to time too often arguments pit predestination against free will we believe in both steve creps indiana university creps lateran ucs indiana edu
