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| | Pierre Bayle |
 | | According to just the twentieth-century interpretations, Bayle might have been a positivist, an atheist, a deist, a skeptic, a fideist, a Socinian, a liberal Calvinist, a conservative Calvinist, a libertine, a Judaizing Christian, a Judeo-Christian, or even a secret Jew, a Manichean, an existentialist. |
| | To be sure, not all of these exclude the rest; for example, skepticism has often been associated with fideism. |
| | As to the denial of divine foreknowledge, which Bayle finds incredible by itself, God is still not exculpated, since once Eve had sinned, He should have known that Adam would do the same, a possibility that ought to have been considered in any case. |
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