[HPforGrownups] Re: Calvinism

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 23605

Just to toss out a thought on choice. It depends on where you sit.

Even in a perfectly Calvinist, predestined world, the inhabitants
thereof would *still* believe they were using free will. They haven't
read the ending, they're caught in a perspective necessarily limited by
their participation in the drama, and as such, their choices are just
that--choices. They themselves do not know whether they are elect or
not. That their fate is predestined is not therefore relevant, since
they can't really know and must still make the best choices they can.

So I'm not sure whether establishing that the characters actually made
choices or not is relevant; characters would make choices anyway. Isn't
the point that the choices they make reveal them, not whether they truly
make choices?

--Amanda, struggling to remember her Milton and loving this
hairsplitting thread!