RE: How Free Will and Omniscience Works
September 3, 2012 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2012 at 3:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Care to explain how one might have knowledge of a future choice without it's being set then?
Bolding mine.
It isn't the "knowing" that forces the "choice" it's the "that it can be known". Nevertheless, this is a strange comparison, did you know whether I would drive on the right side or cross the median? If you did, could I have done the opposite of what you knew? If I did, what -exactly- did you know to begin with?
(September 3, 2012 at 3:13 pm)IATIA Wrote:(August 30, 2012 at 2:57 am)idunno Wrote: To borrow the hypothetical from GodlessGirl's thread, You have to choose between an apple an an orange. So if this all-knowing God knows you are going to pick the apple but you choose the orange you have just negated Gods omniscience. If you are unable to pick the orange then you have negated free will.
This is an ambiguous statement. Just because this "all-knowing god" 'knows' what choice may be made, in no way forces the choice any more than I force you to drive on the right side of the road rather that cross the median into oncoming traffic.
Bolding mine.
It isn't the "knowing" that forces the "choice" it's the "that it can be known". Nevertheless, this is a strange comparison, did you know whether I would drive on the right side or cross the median? If you did, could I have done the opposite of what you knew? If I did, what -exactly- did you know to begin with?
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