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It is not the case that God's omniscience includes perfect foreknowledge of how free creatures will respond to any given grace.
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If God infallibly knows in advance what choice you'll make, that choice cannot be genuinely free—it's determined by prior facts.
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Counterfactual knowledge of free acts seems logically impossible: there's no fact of the matter about what a free agent would do pre-creation.
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Perfect foreknowledge eliminates the openness required for free will; creatures cannot do otherwise than God eternally knew they would.
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God's knowledge is not temporal but eternal, viewing all moments simultaneously, so foreknowledge doesn't causally determine future choices.
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Free will requires only absence of external coercion, not metaphysical independence from God's knowledge of what we'll freely choose.
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An omniscient being must know all truths, including counterfactuals about how free creatures respond to grace in any scenario.
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