Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will

How can God know the future and we still have freedom? If God knows the future, doesn't that mean that it must be as He knows it, and so we cannot do other than what He knows we will? That seems to mean that we cannot be free if He knows with certainty what we will do.

Boethius (d. 524) distinguishes between natural necessity which belongs to natural causes and conditional necessity which knowledge has. Just as we can know free acts here and now, and so they have conditional necessity while still being free, so God knows all free acts in an eternal now. His knowledge does not impose necessity and destroy freedom, but recognizes free acts as being self-determined, and so having conditional necessity. Human freedom is thus compatible with divine (fore)knowledge, says Boethius.

But this explanation views God's knowledge on the model of our knowledge, which is passive and receptive of its object. Thomas Aquinas proposes a solution incorporating Boethius's basic insight, but conceiving of God as Pure Act and the First Cause of all actuality, so God knows creatures by willing to create them. God is a transcendent cause Who knows all free acts by causing in free creatures their actuality as free, but this does not determine their choice or cause them with natural necessity.

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While there is ample evidence in scripture that God is by His very nature all knowing, however the assumption that man has free will is not supported in scripture. Each of these theories starts with the unproven presupposition that man is somehow of necessity free. This is the starting point in which each theory is built upon, and yet human freedom cannot be shown to be a matter of proven fact. To say that it is possible for God to be all-knowing and yet man to be free on some level is to beg the question of Man's supposed freedom.
The notion of human freedom may stem from an intuitive feeling or concept that in order to be held responsible /accountable for one's actions one must be free. This intuition, however, is not supported by scripture, although many believe that it is. All of the modals offered in this presentation have as their foundational notion that man is free and therefore it need not be proven. This is a flaw in each argument.