(August 24, 2018 at 9:43 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: A being with true omniscience cannot have free will. It can only do what it has foreseen that it will do. If it did otherwise, that would prove it is not truly omniscient. Also at odds with omnipotence, if you can't even get out of your own prophecies, you're not truly omnipotent.
Yes. An omniscient creature will know the entire range of actions it can take, but also the optimal action. So why choose something other than the optimum? Religionists will say because of free will, but this doesn't explain why one would deliberately choose a sub-optimal action.
