BOETHIUS was concerned about God's omniscience because it would seem wrong to punish or reward us for our actions if God already knows the future and what we will inevitably do. After much contemplation, BOETHIUS reached the conclusion that he had made a mistake. This was because he had forgotten that God can see things in a different way from the way humans see. Humans exist within time and have a past that has been fixed with uncertain futures. Due to the future being uncertain, humans have genuine free will. However, God is not constrained by time so he does not have a past, present or future. Therefore, 'his knowledge, too, transcends all temporal change.' God can see our past, present and future so that he has perfect knowledge of what we will freely choose to do. He does not know what moral choices we will make in advance because there is no such thing as 'in advance; for God. All events occur simultaneously for God in his eternal presence.