Freewill and Determinism and God

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  • Freewill and Determinism and God
    • Timeless God
      • God
        • Transcendent
      • Freewill
        • omniscience
      • God 'knows' timelessly
      • Simultaneous time
      • Complete omniscience
      • Is this definition of omniscience enough?
      • Do our choices mean anything?
        • Knowledge leads to act?
          • Does knowing cause us to act?
      • God sees our choices
    • Kenny
      • (Luther Predestination)
      • Beast of burden
        • God (good) or Satan (evil)
      • All of us do what we will
        • Good men do Good
        • Bad men will do bad
    • Boethius
      • God's knowledge is not causal of our actions
      • Sees the results of our freedom
      • We are still the origination of our choices
      • God's omniscience is complete in that one moment of time
      • Possible evaluation
        • We still have freewill
    • Everlasting God
      • The everlasting God is within time
        • To him the future is future, past is past
        • Linear experience of time
      • No problem with God knowing the past and present completely
      • Difficulties arise with knowledge of the future
        • Can predict?
          • Creation and cause?
          • Created everything
            • Freewill limited
        • Predict logically what might happen
          • Causation
        • Could argue prediction is not the same as knowing with certainty
        • Knows all causation
      • Laplacse Demon
      • No problem in claiming everlasting God can know today the sun will rise tomorrow and He can know date on which Haley's Comet will return to Solar System
        • Information is available to human being as well, since celestial events behave accordingly to known laws
      • Can everlasting God, however, know  the future free actions of human beings?
        • Genuine freedom
          • God's omniscience cannot extent to future events
          • God has omniscience of all logical choices/what might happen
          • Future is not there to be known
          • Doesn't limit God's omniscience
        • Freedom to act according to our nature
          • Liberty of Spontaneity
            • Hume
          • Illusion
            • Geach
            • God's plan will happen
          • Vardy criticises: we cannot predict the moves we will make with certainty
    • Predestination
      • Theological determinism based on belief that God created world and all events
      • Hard determinism
        • Afterlife
        • Omniscience
          • All knowing
        • Omniscience and freewill maintained
      • Predestination refers to God electing/choosing who will go to Heavan + Hell
      • Xn believe we have freewill
        • We would be of little value if we didn't freely choose to worship him
        • Freewill allows us to make genuine moral choices that lead us to, or away from, God.
          • We can't act morally without freewill
        • The story of Adam + Eve is classic example of a misuse of God given freedom of choice
      • Omniscience + Freewill
        • Creation - omniscient images
        • Transcendence
          • Outside of time and space
        • Omniscience is beyond us
        • His conscience is not causal
        • Genuine choice
          • Faith
        • Sacrament
          • An outside sign of an inward grace
    • Maintaining God's omniscience
      • Molina's Middle Knowledge
        • God knows all that will happen and could or would happen under different circumstances
        • Subjunctive conditionals
          • Contrary to fact
            • e.g. I haven't won the lottery but if I did I would..
        • 'If...then...'
        • Kennedy example
          • "If Oswald didn't shoot Kennedy, someone else did."

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