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Free will Argument against Divine Providence
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RE: Free will Argument against Divine Providence
There's actually a fairly well-known concept that human free will cannot exist within the framework of an omniscient being. Attend:

P1 - Any Being who can reasonably be considered God will, by definition, have to be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnicreative.

P2 - Omniscience, by definition, requires that there is nothing unknown or unknowable to God.

P3 - From (P2), God knows in advance the actions you will take.

P4 - From (P2), God created the actions you take and the choices which lead to those actions.

P5 - From (P4), there is no action you can undertake and no choice for which you can opt which has not been pre-created for you.

C - Since (P5) you are constrained to act in pre-determined ways by God, you have no free will.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: Free will Argument against Divine Providence - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 27, 2013 at 11:33 pm

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