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Theists: How can predetermined fate and free will coexist?
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RE: Theists: How can predetermined fate and free will coexist?
December 15, 2016 at 7:49 pm
Let's say someone offers my kid a choice between Cake or Baked beans. I know with as close to 100% certainty as possible, she's going to choose the Cake. My knowledge of her future choice in cake in no way affects her freedom to choose.

So, hypothetically, if I have an omnipotent level of knowledge about her instead, I'd likely know every choice she were about to make. Again, my knowledge of her future choices wouldn't have anything to do with her choosing. Her free will would remain perfectly in tact.

I've got complaints, but I don't see a problem here.
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RE: Theists: How can predetermined fate and free will coexist? - by henryp - December 15, 2016 at 7:49 pm

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