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    It is not the case that There is a dilemma for anyone who wants to maintain both that there is a deity who infallibly knows the entire future and that human beings have libertarian free will.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.If God exists timelessly, as Boethius and Aquinas maintained, divine 'foreknowledge' is not temporally prior to human acts.
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    • 2.Logical incompatibility between foreknowledge and free will presupposes divine knowledge is temporally antecedent, which timeless eternity denies.
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    • 3.A timeless God perceives all moments in an eternal present, making the inference from necessity of the past inapplicable.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.God's knowledge of future free acts may be grounded in middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, as Molina argued.
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    • 2.Middle knowledge is logically prior to God's creative decree, so foreknowledge tracks free choices rather than determining them.
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    Reasons Against

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    • The theological fatalist argument purports to show that infallible divine foreknowledge is incompatible with libertarian free will.
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