If “God” knows what we are going to do in advance, then “free will” is a myth, since we’re not free to not do something that we are going to do—and that “He” knows that we are doing to do. The only way that there could be free will is if “God” doesn’t know everything and the end of all things from the beginning, but then, “He” isn’t omniscient. You can’t have it both ways! If “He” knows everything, then “He” is responsible and to blame for what we do because “He” put us here, in spite of “His” knowing what we would do. ~ John D. Partin
It is not convenient to briefly respond to a barrage or spread of complaints against God by an apparent agnostic or atheist, but we can adequately address those complaints one at a time as opportunity presents itself. We choose presently to respond to the faulty reasoning respecting the freewill of God.
First, the complaint against God’s freewill is merely an assertion. Obviously, there is no allusion to biblical references since the complainant discounts God, the author of the Bible, as credible. Therefore, a feeble attempt at reasoning away God’s freewill, and God himself, relies on one’s mere affirmation, as though that is authority enough.
Second, the horns of a dilemma is supposed respecting the interference of God’s omniscience with man’s freewill, whereby it is concluded that God cannot exist. Again, we are asked to rely for proof of the assertion on the mere affirmation of the complainant.
No evidence is supplied to bolster either affirmation! I have no reason to doubt the sincerity of the complainant, though his attempt at philosophical gymnastics is slightly amusing. The proposed scenario reminds me of an incident in my life, and I never realized that I was on par with God.
Once from the vantage of a hillside overlooking an industrial site, I observed the activation of railroad lights and crossing arms for a train that was about to exit a warehouse. I heard the noise associated with the crossing and the train engine’s horn. On the other side of the building, around a blind corner, I also observed a semi truck barreling toward that crossing, apparently oblivious to the approaching train. It became apparent to me as the train emerged from the building and as the truck neared the blind turn, at which it would encounter a blocked crossing, the truck and the train would collide.
The train won that encounter! I saw the inevitable, but I did not make it happen. Similarly, God with his omniscience can peer into the future and see what will occur without being personally responsible for making it happen.
