If God's 'foreknowledge' is not genuinely prior in time to your act, then the inference from the necessity of the past to the necessity of your act has no temporal past to be fixed.
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knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
modal(in logic and metaphysics)
Dealing with possibility and necessity—questions about what could be true, what must be true, and what's merely contingent (could go either way).
necessity of the past(Used to argue that foreknown future events are similarly unalterable)
Once a state of affairs has obtained, it is unalterably or necessarily the case that it did occur