I'll try to demonstrate the tenability of an omniscient, omnipotent, and all-loving God coexisting with free will and evil.
First, I'll address omniscience and free will. Typically, the objection to their simultaneous existence runs like this:
1. I will choose to stand up in a moment
2. God knows this.
3. God is never wrong.
4. Therefore, I have no choice but to stand up in a moment
As airtight and logically flowing as these seems...
1. I will choose to stand up in a moment
2. Therefore, I have no choice but to stand up in a moment
The conclusion ("Therefore,") still follows without the statements about God. That is to say, if you are going to choose to stand up in a moment, then you have no choice but to stand up in a moment. The first statement already says what you will do; the conclusion has to repeat it in order to avoid contradiction.
With free will, you can still only pick one thing to do. As you are certainly going to pick one thing to do, your future will consist of that choice: "I AM going to stand up in a moment." You cannot choose not to do what you are going to choose to do; that is illogical. That is to say, whatever it is I will be doing will be that which I choose to do. It is not the future that determines your actions, but the reverse. In an omniscient God's case, it's the same thing. Its not that what He knows is what we will do, but rather that what we do makes what He knows.
More later.
Okami
To lavish praise upon this title, the assumption of a common plateau between player and game must be made. I won't open my unworthy mouth.
