God doesn't prevent terrible things because?

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The Fury said:

dsgrue3 said:

 Except omniscience implies foreknowledge...thus negating your entire argument.

Licence said:

If God does not know which possibility Cain will make, there is something he does not know. Hence, he is not omniscient.

But this goes goes back to SHADE's orginal answer to the idea that God was testing Cain. God knows Cain killed Abel, he knows the future of what Cain will do however God cannot affect Cain's free will of choice, to say that he did kill him or that he didn't.

All these things point to the same arguement  that Free Will and omniscience contridict each other. You cannot have one with the other. I see it as the past has happened so God knows. The future hasn't happened but God knows all outcomes. The futures are determined by man's free will but it doesn't matter which free will choice man makes as God knows them all.

 

It's not possible to *test* Cain because god knows the answer already. He know which response will be chosen. To suggest otherwise is to suggest that god is not omniscient.

Your argument is that there are certain possible choices that god knows about, but does not know which one Cain will choose. But re-read that last statement - "does not know." By not knowing something, your position is that god is not omniscient.