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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...

Philosophy of religion has long dealt with the problem regarding the compatibility between divine foreknowledge and human freedom. The problem states that if God possesses knowledge of the future, then all human choices and actions are determined and must occur. They may not be other than what they are. If these choices and actions cannot be otherwise than what the divine knowledge stipulates, then human beings cannot possess freedom. Much ink has been spilled attempting to find a solution
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