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    Challenges→If there is a being who infallibly knows everything that will happen in the future, no human being has any control over the future.

    Boethius and Aquinas argue God exists in eternal simultaneity, perceiving all of time at once rather than foreknowing it sequentially.

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    • 1.Sequential foreknowledge creates logical contradiction: God would know future free choices before they occur, making them determined rather than free.
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    • 2.Eternal simultaneity preserves both divine omniscience and human freedom by placing God outside temporal succession entirely.
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    • 3.Classical metaphysics requires God's perfection to exclude dependence on time; temporal beings exist in time, but God transcends it.
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    • 1.Eternal simultaneity is conceptually incoherent: 'seeing all at once' imports temporal language that contradicts timelessness itself.
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    • 2.If God perceives future events as present, those events possess determinate truth-values now, which still seems to necessitate them logically.
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    • 3.The doctrine lacks explanatory power for how timeless perception relates to causal processes unfolding sequentially in the actual world.
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