Micah,
In reference to your first question, I believe that omniscience and free will are mutually exclusive. If the outcome of a choice is already known, is it really a choice?
Some definitions of free will include:
The power of making free choices that are unconstrained by external circumstances or by an agency such as fate or divine will.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company
A will free from improper coercion or restraint
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc
If making the "wrong" choice can be based on the fear of eternal damnation is it truly "free"? It would definately seem to me, to be a matter of coercion. The supposed fact of an omniscient god giving wo/man any choice (of which he already knows the outcome)and yet attempting to coerce the choice with a threat is almost laughably illogical to me.
So many times Xtian answers to the tough questions in life come down to "It's God's will." If everything seems to be based on the will of god, than how does wo/man have a true choice?
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Asgara
"An unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates via Plato
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