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    It is not the case that The compatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom can be defended.

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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 action that is necessary cannot be otherwise, and an action that cannot be otherwise is not free in any meaningful libertarian sense.
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    • 3.Therefore, infallible foreknowledge is logically incompatible with the libertarian freedom required for genuine moral responsibility.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The claim that God's foreknowledge 'depends on' future free acts inverts the classical divine aseity doctrine, which holds God's knowledge is not causally derived from creation.
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    • 2.A God whose knowledge is dependent on contingent human acts is not the metaphysically independent, eternally self-sufficient being of classical theism.
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    • 1.God's foreknowledge of future contingents depends on the foreknown events themselves, including future exercises of human free will.
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    • 2.Human actions are independent of God's foreknowledge of them.
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