(June 16, 2015 at 11:07 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(June 16, 2015 at 9:27 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Think about it in more ordinary terms. Suppose you decide today that you are going to open a bottle of beer tomorrow after you get home from work. And suppose that after you get home from work tomorrow, you open a bottle of beer. You are not going to tell us that you could not have done otherwise, if you had wished to do otherwise, are you? It is not "destiny" or forced for you to decide to do something in advance and then do it. It is that at the time you do it, you still want to do it. Otherwise, you would not do it. The same idea applies to god.
Your missing the point that omnipotence AND omniscience is not possible. It's not a question of God DECIDING he will do something in advance, it is KNOWING what he will do in advance. If he changes his mind, his prior knowledge would then be incorrect, violating his omniscience.
Yesterday, I knew I would have coffee this morning. And this morning, I had coffee. Does that mean I lack free will?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
