THEO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Fatalism, Time Travel, Omnipotence
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Divine foreknowledge and freewill (theological fatalism or open theism?) God has infallible divine foreknowledge: infallible= cannot be wrong foreknowledge= known beforehand. It is impossible to reconcile god"s fallible foreknowledge with human free will (mutually exclusive) It is possible to reconcile god"s infallible foreknowledge with human free will (tend to one side or the other) God knows human actions before they are made, so any action is therefore not free. Some scholars simply give up the idea of human free will and focus on causal determinism (incompatibilist) Others redefine free will to be compatible with determinism (compatibilist) You also cannot make that being wrong since that being is infallible. Therefore, you can neither change the fact that the being believed something nor can you do other than that being believed. To say that it is now- necessary that milk has been spilled is to say that nobody can do anything now about the fact that milk has been spilled.
