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    It is not the case that If God timelessly knows proposition P, then God's knowing P is not earlier, later, or simultaneous with any human act, making it conceptually impossible for God's knowledge to be counterfactually dependent on what agents freely do.

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    • 1.Counterfactual dependence may not require temporal relations—God could timelessly 'respond' to what agents freely do without prior or posterior timing.
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    • 2.The claim conflates epistemic simultaneity with temporal simultaneity; timeless knowledge might have a distinct non-temporal dependency structure.
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    • 3.If God's knowledge constitutively depends on facts about free human choices, this dependency holds regardless of whether God exists timelessly or temporally.
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    • 1.Timeless knowledge means God's knowing occurs outside the temporal sequence where human acts occur, creating a logical gap for dependence relations.
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    • 2.Counterfactual dependence requires the dependee to be temporally positioned to influence or respond to the dependent fact, which timelessness precludes.
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    • 3.If God's knowledge were counterfactually dependent on free acts, God's knowledge would be conditionally determined by temporal events, contradicting timelessness.
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