(November 13, 2019 at 5:59 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(November 13, 2019 at 5:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If God created the conditions under which I cannot do not-X, then God's actualization eliminates free will.
You could have done not-X. In other possible worlds, that's what you do. But God actualizes the world in which you do X.
So in this sense, God knows beforehand what you would do in this actual world because he knows what world he actualized, but this doesn't mean you weren't free to have done not-X (because in other possible worlds, you do just that).
I agree, though, free will perse (in the libertarian sense) makes no sense, but we're assuming that somehow free will is possible.
I'm not sure that 'other possible worlds' applies here. Even if it does, the argument doesn't change, as God will have actualized those worlds as well, and he would have actualized them in such a way that I will either do X or not-X. God has predetermined what I will do or not do. There not only is not choice, there is no possibility of choice.
Boru
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