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Omniscience, Foreknowledge, and the Problem of Divine Freedom is unavailable, but you can change that!

The problem of God’s foreknowledge of the future and its compatibility with human freedom and responsibility is one of the greatest issues in philosophy of religion. There is, however, another side to this issue. If God foreknows the future, then he also foreknows his own future actions. How then is God a free and responsible agent? After extrapolating the problem, Floyd applies to the divine...

reality but which have no reality themselves. Like fictionalism, it is not apparent how such theories are compatible with an all-knowing and creative God. If what God knows is merely figurative or imaginative, then on what metaphysical grounds can God make these things actual? Does God even possess knowledge of reality if his knowledge does not even represent or reflect reality? These theories have even further troubling concerns. Given the implications of these anti-realist theories, both God and
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