Free will vs Omniscience

No one has ever considered that.Being able to do impossible things is not a necessary condition for the existence of free will.Edited by Jon, : No reason given.

I suppose you might have, but that's just you.Within a traditional understanding you clearly support the notion that free will exists.

Sometimes a person looks at a situation and imagines how it will play out.Sometimes the person is wrong.Sometimes they are right.On the occasion that they are right, do we regard the actors as having no free will?Do they have freewill only so long as absolutely no one could possibly look at the situation and imagine its outcome?

Huh?My questions were about a hypothetical observer.Your answer is all about you.

No. No."You will drop the ball".If you drop the ball I am right. If you don't I am wrong.It doesn't really matter how I arrived at my supposition, it is right or wrong based on how it accords with unfolding reality.

Rigging the lottery is not arriving at a supposition; it's creating a reality.I don't think anyone in the debate is considering whether a problem of free will exists because God creates the future as He would like it to be. Because obviously such a universe would lack free will and there would be no debate. The intensified version of being right on occasion is being right on all occasions, not being infallibly right.One's guesses may be right on all occasions even if their guesses are just guesses, and having been 100% correct in all past guesses does not necessitate the next guess being accurate.In other words, being a good guessereven a really good guesserdoes not make one incapable of error, even if one has thus far not erred.

Which was my point in Message 174.

We can get there if you'd like.Or you could continue to fling insults and waste thread space going in circles.Take your pick.

Are you equally proud of all your accomplishments?

Guessing and knowing are analogous in that both are mental states and nothing else.

Nonsense.The knowledge folks had of the Sun going around the Earth didn't change the fact that the Earth goes around the Sun. Neither did anyone's guesses on the matter.The effect of both knowledge and guesses on reality is nonexistent.Edited by Jon, : No reason given.

The OP asked how foreknowledge and freewill could coexist.Discussing the potential deficiencies of the common pop-philosophy understanding of knowledge is not an act of ignorance or error, but spot on the topic and (seeing as no one has offered a fully agreeable solution) probably not a waste of time.