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    If God infallibly knows at T1 that agent A will do X at T... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God's foreknowledge is compatible with libertarian freedom.
    Challenges→The compatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom can be defended.

    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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    • 1.Infallible knowledge means the known proposition cannot be false without the knower being fallible, making the proposition necessarily true.
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    • 2.If God's knowledge at T1 is about a genuine fact, that fact must obtain; otherwise God wouldn't know it but would merely guess correctly.
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    • 3.Logical consistency requires that if P is known to be true, then P cannot simultaneously be false or avoidable without contradiction.
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    • 1.Infallible knowledge of a contingent fact does not entail the fact is necessary; God could infallibly know contingent truths without determining them.
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    • 2.The argument conflates epistemic necessity (what is knowable) with metaphysical necessity (what must be true), committing a modal scope fallacy.
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    • 3.If God exists outside time, God's knowledge at T1 describes what A freely does at T2 without causally determining it, preserving agent freedom.
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