Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge

My summary of William Rowe's " Predestionation, Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom." The argument claims that if God knows everything, we cannot be free, since being free means having the power to do otherwise, and no one can do otherwise if God knows before hand what we will do.

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• William
• Rowe
• freedom
• free
• will
• determinism
• destiny
• divine
• foreknowledge
• predestination
• preordination
• God
• theism

[ZenoKameno]

Did Locke use the term 'kickass party' :L

[SisyphusRedeemed]

@daveme7 Yeah... I'm sorry, but you do realize that's all bullshit, right?

[travlr3000x]

Addendum: I can do whatever I want. what I do causes the correct prediction by way of retrocausality. you cannot apply the standard physics of time to a magical concept such as omniscience. I can tape a football game and travel back in time and that doesn't change the football players' abilities to act otherwise. They can still do whatever they want. They simply do what they choose and I already saw the free choice they will make from a past perspective. Free will is not about prediction dodging

[travlr3000x]

Premise 2 is incorrect. Knowledge of what I will do does not affect what I can do. there's a difference between what I can do and what I actually do. There is no contradiction as I see it. Here's another video on the subject /watch?v=8hZka_-elP4

[Requiemxtoxinnocence]

Free will and prophecy is a huge problem, if things are fated to happen then things would be out of mankind's control or act as puppets to act out this prophecy. If mankind has free will then these prophecies can be averted through actions of mankind and independently screw up god's plan. So it really depends on how much power fate has and how much freedom man has.

[Pickle900]

If God has made prophetic claims in a holy book, then not only does God have a diary of future events, but so do many religious people. If the future must map to the prophecies in the bible or the koran, then we don't have the power to do otherwise. I demonstrated this to a Christian, who had to admit that we absolutely can't have a nuclear war that kills off human civilization because that contradicts the prophecies in the bible.

[bigbaddeerhunter]

I was gonna try to watch this video, but after a minute of it I changed my mind. Maybe I will watch it tommmorow. Or maybe something more inteligent will be in my recommended video list.

[SisyphusRedeemed]

@ThoseGamerguyz Check out my video "How To Dissolve the Problem of Free Will and Determinism" for the answer to that.