Free will

[robvalue]

Yup, if it's possible to know what I will do before I do it, then I cannot choose to do anything else. I don't know how so many people can so easily believe contradictory statements. If God is outside of our timeline, then the question becomes, "did he know all what all my actions would be before he started our timeline"? If yes, I don't have genuine choices to make. He has fashioned my whole life in advance.

It would be far more reasonable to say God cannot know what I'm going to do because that is logically impossible (assuming I do actually have a genuine choice to make). Just like he can't make a rock he can't lift; God is governed by logic. Logic is God, really.

But people are uncomfortable with that concession, so they choose both sides at once even though it makes their God logically inconsistent. Since it's not real and never shows up to be analysed, they can carry on believing things about it that don't make sense.