God's Omniscience vs. Free Will

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omniscience is in conjunction with human free will is an attractive ideology to many, especially the religious, it must be taken into consideration the possibility of error and misguidance in this bold statement. Resulting in free will and God’s foreknowledge being rationally incompatible.
Philosophy (and ultimately Boethius’) argument is that God’s foreknowledge and human free will exist in peace with one another. Each are intertwined together. God has knowledge of all human actions and yet humanity still possesses the liberty of free will. God does not impose upon free will, he simply is aware of how humans will ultimately perform. Philosophy argues that we misinterpret God’s true vision upon humanity, “you will more accurately determine that it is not a foreknowledge as of something that is to come, but rather a knowledge of a never-failing present” (146). In other words that God does not cause the future, he simply is aware of the events that will transpire. For the sake ...

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in Philosophy’s argument is the very same detail that she claims defends her proposition, the idea of timelessness. Philosophy argues, “it does not yet have the future things and the things have been completed it has no longer” and in the same breathe states a contradicting view “that which grasps and possesses the entire fullness of life that has no end at one and the same time is rightly held to be eternal” (145). An illustration against Philosophy’s idea of timelessness might follow as such, if the center of a circle was God’s knowledge and the circumference of the circle humanity, is not God (the center) always present at any point within the history of humanity (the ...

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