(May 23, 2023 at 4:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: [quote='Neo-Scholastic' pid='2147669' dateline='1684870395'] God must know what choice I will make in any given situation. Kinda shoots that whole ‘free will’ thing in the foot, dunnit?
Boru
Yes, it is unreasonable. If you have no real possibility of "choosing otherwise" then it isn't a choice but rather a necessity. You can decide for yourself if you believe in free will. (That's a joke)
As far as I can tell, free will requires three necessary and sufficient conditions: agency, origin, and ability - where an agent is efficient cause of the choice, origin means you are the source of the decision, and ability means that you can actualize your choice. Your position is that the mere existence of God is inconsistent with any of those three conditions. I don't know exactly why. I will explain my understanding of what all-knowing, which is unlikely to reflect any orthodoxy. You will accuse me of diminishing God. Am I wrong?
What I will say is that one's opinion about free will is not a reason to disbelieve in God. If your conviction is that free will an illusion then you could still be a Calvinist. If you believe in free will then you could still be a Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist or even Swedenborgian.
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