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To: aquila48
So you have to pick one of the following...

1. I have free will, therefore God is NOT omniscient, or

2. God is omniscent, therefore I have no free will.

Actually, your premise is wrong. God can know everything that will happen, but not make it happen.

It's sort of like you knowing your kids will eat the chocolate bar you put on the table, yet, don't tell them to eat, or not eat, it.

90 posted on 09/25/2022 10:13:56 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“Actually, your premise is wrong. God can know everything that will happen, but not make it happen.”

It doesn’t matter WHO or WHAT makes it happens. If anybody knows what I’m going to do means I don’t have free will. I cannot choose anything other than what is known a priori with 100% probability.

If I know with 100% certainty that tonight you’re going to drink a bottle of beer, you will drink a bottle of beer. You think you’re choosing that, but you’re not it’s predermined. IOW, free will is just a wishful illusion.

“It’s sort of like you knowing your kids will eat the chocolate bar you put on the table”

You do not know that with 100% certainty. That’s THE crucial distinction.


91 posted on 09/25/2022 10:40:20 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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