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N&AoG - Omniscience - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Our actions however are still set in stone, even if God's hand does not force them. If God knows I choose vanilla ice cream, I can't be free to choose chocolate, since God already knows the result of my choices
        
        Boethius argues that yes, God's knowledge of the future actions means they are set in stone & necessary, however God's knowledge isn't what makes our future actions necessary. It was our free choice that set them in stone & made them necessary
        
        Imagine a guy walking, it is necessary that they are walking however in the past they could have chosen not to walk, making it not necessary that they are walking, so our necessary actions are conditional on our choice
  - - - THEREFORE ALL OF TIME IS INSIDE OF GOD
        
        All of space (The first 3 dimensions) are contained within one moment in time (The 4th dimension). Therefore, God knows our future actions by actually being with them in divine eternity
        
        Kenny's critique, the eternal view of God makes no sense because events in time are not all happening at one moment, therefore God is not seeing events correctly, so he lacks omniscience
        
        This works w/Boethius yes, but not Anselm
        
        "Within time, my birth and my parents are non-simultaneous. However, within eternity they are simultaneous
        
        All events within time, whether they are simultaneous with each other or not, all exist in one moment in eternity. So, when God sees my birth and parents birth occurring at the same time, it isn't seeing things incorrectly