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    It is not the case that God's foreknowledge is compatible with libertarian freedom.

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    • 1.If God infallibly knows at T1 that agent A will do X at T2, then it is necessary that A does X at T2.
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    • 2.An agent lacks libertarian freedom regarding an action if it is necessary that the agent performs it.
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    • 3.Boethian eternal simultaneity does not dissolve the transfer of necessity from divine knowledge to human action.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Middle knowledge, as Molina proposed, requires that counterfactuals of creaturely freedom have determinate truth values prior to God's creative decree.
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    • 2.If the truth of such counterfactuals is grounded in nothing within the agent's undetermined will, they violate the grounding objection advanced by Robert Adams and William Hasker.
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    • 3.Without a coherent grounding for true counterfactuals of freedom, foreknowledge of libertarian free acts lacks a stable epistemic foundation.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.God is not bound in time but knows the future from an eternal viewpoint.
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    • 2.The unique vantage point of an omniscient God prevents any impingement on freedom.
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    • 3.God can know the future without this knowledge being grounded on an established, determinate future.
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