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Molinism and the Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom
Molinism affirms divine foreknowledge is compatible with human free will but it denies that free will is compatible with the terminism. So do you think Molinism has any advantages over these Boethian and ochomist views? Yes, now the Boethian view is that God is timeless and so God timelessly sees the whole of human history from beginning to end. And I don't think it does anything to safeguard human freedom because whether God's knowledge is tucked away in the past and therefore temporarily necessary or whether it's held timelessly by God, in either case it's unchangeable. What Monism does is it gives extra explanatory depth to the ochemist view