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  • Essay / Analysis of God's Omniscient and Free Will - 1575

    Hypothetically speaking, if there was a machine in the world capable of projecting the image of a person choosing to do tomorrow. Wouldn't that imply that tomorrow this person must do what was known in advance? Ultimately, despite planning and deliberation, that person must choose exactly as the machine projected. The question we must ask ourselves is: “Does free will exist or is it just an illusion?” » But no machine with such ability existed in this world, and the only one with such power is God. The argument that God is omniscient and human free will has been around for thousands of years. The heart of this argument is that if God were supposed to be omniscient, therefore in possession of infallible foreknowledge of human actions, then humans should not have free will. . The concept of God is omniscient and humans' free will is inherently contradictory, so they cannot coexist. This argument implied predestination and often resonated with the dilemma of determinism, because God was believed to have given free will to humanity. In order to understand God's omniscience, we must distinguish the important difference between human foreknowledge and divine foreknowledge, the former being contingent foreknowledge. true, and the latter is the necessary truth. Human beliefs are contingent, because they could be true or false. Divine beliefs are a necessary truth, denying it will create a contradiction. Therefore, as logic dictates, my first proposition is that if one believes in God, then no human action will be voluntary. However, it should be noted that God knows everything, but that does not mean that God is in control of everything. For the sake of argument in the metaphysical sense, what if there was more than just one reality...... middle of paper ......conditions: Since God knows everything, the multiverse can exist within the omniscience of God. . God does not control everything, this allows humanity to have free will. The multiverse exists because of human choices. My initial proposition regarding the free will/omniscient argument was based on necessary truth, and this coincided with Nelson Pike's explanation. This ultimately leads to a fatalistic view that no human action is voluntary if one believes in God. Although my second proposition is not supported by Pike's essay, it draws on Boethius's theory of human free will, based on the condition of necessity. Combined with the idea of ​​the multiverse, this allows humans to be free while remaining within the bounds of God's omniscience. We live in a time of constant change and new hypotheses will develop as we gain more knowledge about ultimate reality..