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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
appolose said:

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.


How does he not know what we will do? Is he, in fact, not almighty?

God knows everything, remember?

I didn't say He didn't know, I said our future  choices would be what make His knowledge.  That is to say, if there was a god who was not omniscient that made a universe in which free will existed, that universe would arrive at some particular state after some time as everyone continued to make their choices. Now, suppose instead the creator god was omniscient, but made the universe the same way as in the first case.  Once again, that universe arrives at the same state the first one did.  Adding omniscience changed nothing ( I posit).



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