If future events can be foretold, does it not teach foreordination and that we are not wholly responsible for our acts?
I believe that a great eternal law runs through all the events of life. I believe, also, that this great tide of being determines, concerning all the events of life. I believe that every human soul, as an intelligence, possesses each its distinctive quality of responsibility.
Just so far as that soul understands what right is, just so far that soul is responsible to that law of right.
And who so sins against it, sins against what may properly be termed the Holy Ghost, for I know of nothing holier than the Divine law, which makes us conscious of right.
―William E. Channing in Spirit

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