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EPISODE · Oct 21, 2020 · 7 MIN

Does God's Foreknowledge Fate Human Choice?

from Questions from the Unsettled Mind

Since God is all knowing, it might seem that God’s knowledge creates an inescapable destiny for every single human person. Classically, this is called Fate, that we are trapped in certain roles, certain habits, and even certain ends with no possibility of escape. The argument favoring Fatalism is that since God’s knowledge is foreknowledge, i.e., he knows before we act, then, since what he knows is true, it follows that what he knows about the truths of our actions are true before and regardless of what we might like to do! Hence, it seems that God’s knowing in advance locks us into having to fulfill what God’s infinite knowledge tells him is going to happen. As such, free will is an illusion and we are wholly subject to Fate.

Since God is all knowing, it might seem that God’s knowledge creates an inescapable destiny for every single human person. Classically, this is called Fate, that we are trapped in certain roles, certain habits, and even certain ends with no possibility of escape. The argument favoring Fatalism is that since God’s knowledge is foreknowledge, i.e., he knows before we act, then, since what he knows is true, it follows that what he knows about the truths of our actions are true before and regardless of what we might like to do! Hence, it seems that God’s knowing in advance locks us into having to fulfill what God’s infinite knowledge tells him is going to happen. As such, free will is an illusion and we are wholly subject to Fate.

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