Here is how the problem is usually stated:
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If God has perfect foreknowledge, He knows
exactly what we will do in the future. This means that we cannot choose to act
in a way that violates His foreknowledge. Instead, we can only choose to act
consistent with how He knows we will act. This means that we could not have
acted otherwise. CONCLUSION: There is no room for freewill, and everything is
determined by God’s foreknowledge.
Here is one possible resolution to the apparent conflict
between our freewill and God's omniscience - While things MUST happen according
to God's foreknowledge, we still COULD have done otherwise. However, we would
NOT have done otherwise. This understanding preserves both foreknowledge and
freewill.
To demonstrate this, let’s imagine a cosmic camera that lies
outside of time. Let’s also imagine that it is recording everything that
happens, past, present, and future. Consequently, events will take place as the
camera has recorded them.
Does the presence of this camera limit our free choice? Of
course not! A camera cannot limit free choice. However, a realm of transcendent
timelessness only has the appearance of
limiting free choice from our time-bound perspective.
God is beyond time, since He has created time, space, and
matter. These three are inseparable according to science. And if God created them,
He can certainly navigate through them without the limitations that we
experience.
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