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Originally Posted by pennywise121
omniscience implies infallability of knowledge (for if one truly knows all, then one cannot be wrong about anything or else one is not truly omniscient) with this in mind, we return to the issue of free will. if our diety-of-choice knows everything we are going to do, and is infallable in this knowledge, we cannot do anything other than that which is known to said deity, and hence, no free will.
on the other page, if a god is not truly omniscient, this argument falls apart (but assuming a god is not all-knowing leads to its own problems)
additionally, my original opposition of time-not-applying-to-god still causes problems for this argument as well.
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I don't know how I missed this post earlier, but I did. Actually, pennywise, this is precisely what I hoped for this discussion. You said it more succinctly than I was able.
I just think that the existence of both omniscience and free will is a paradox, if we view omniscience as the infallible foreknowledge.