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Foreknowledge Generates Transfer Of Powerlessness
- If God infallibly believed a past proposition, that belief seems to entail the proposition's truth now.
- Transfer-of-powerlessness reasoning then suggests we lack choice about what will happen if we lack choice about past divine beliefs.
Flip The Explanation To Preserve Freedom
- The dependent solution reverses explanatory direction: God's past beliefs depend on our choices, not vice versa.
- This lets foreknowledge be true without making our choices caused or fixed by God's beliefs.
Time-Telescope Analogy
- Law uses a 'time-telescope' analogy: God peers into the future like one peers at Jupiter with a telescope.
- God's belief a thousand years ago reflects what God saw in the future, which in turn depends on our later choices.