WiiBox3 said:
dsgrue3 said:
Free Will entails uncertainty. There is no uncertainty in Omniscience. Your path is already known - predetermined.
Furthermore, omnipotence - the cliche "Can God create a boulder so large that not even He can lift it?"
These are problematic concepts to say the least.
You aren't making your own choices. Let's call it fate. Everything you will do is already known. How is this possible in free will? It isn't, because if it were, you would be able to change your path. You cannot. In omniscience, it is already set in stone.
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No. Free will means you have a choice, not uncertainty. If you dont eat you know you will be hungry. If you go for a swim you know you will get wet. These are certain. But it is your choice to do these things. Just because God knows what you are going to choose does not mean you don't have a choice.
"Can God create a boulder so large that not even He can lift it?" -> Two problems with this question. 1. God is not male or female. 2. God is not a physical being like in religious paintings.
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Exactly, it means you have a choice. You don't have one if all your decisions are predetermined, which is the case with omniscience. Irrelevent what form God takes, can "it" create something that "it" cannot destroy? The illusion of choice exist with omniscience, but not free will.
I meant uncertainty in that no outcome has been predetermined.
