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You know for while there I almost bought Sho Nuff’s argument.
Then I realized something. How does something without free will know that it doesn’t have it?
Free will depends on the ability to choose. Yet this ability to choose will not be exercised if there is only one path to take. If one knows what a person is going to do then one gives that person only one path to take.
From the person’s perspective it may seem that free will is in effect and indeed the person will be making a choice; a choice that is already determined by the existence just one option. The other paths become an allusion, for there is only one possible choice.
This becomes even more self-evident if one acquires the knowledge of what choice oneself will make. If one has such knowledge then (unlike the movies) the future cannot be changed. Otherwise it one would have knowledge of an outcome, rather then a choice.
So if god is omniscient, then god has knowledge of all choices, therefore god has the power to choice, yet has just one path to chose from.
So in my view Kyo's argument retains the upper hand.
:::OshnSoul:::,
An omniscient being cannot say: “Gee, I wonder what it would be like to experience being a human?” An omniscient god would already know. I think that you are looking at it from a limited human perspective. Our imperfect memory cannot replicate an experience in all its detail. An omniscient deity on the other hand would have perfect knowledge of an experience, knowledge that would be equal to the real experience. We should start a new thread or something on the motivations of god. =D
Finally I offer a new argument against a god with free will.
God is supremely good. If a god is supremely good then god cannot make the choice of evil. Therefore god has limited free will.
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