I grew up going to church but I’m not religious now and I never really understood this part.
Please, no answers along the lines of “aha, that’s why Christianity is a sham” or “religions aren’t logical”. I don’t want to debate whether it’s right or wrong, I just want to understand the logic and reasoning that Christians use to explain this.
They have free will but omniscience means it’s known ahead of time what that free will will lead to.
If you give a 3 year old the choice between watching either the news or baby shark, you can pretty reliably predict the outcome. That but on a bigger scale.
At least that’s the explanation that was given to me.
I know I’m preaching to the choir but omniscience will have to do much better than that. Let’s say someone decides to make a choice depending on the outcome of a throw of a dice. You might say it’s trivial for omniscience to predict what a dice shows by perfect physical knowledge.
But how about if someone makes a choice depending on the content of opening a Schrodinger’s cat’s box? Omniscience will have to be able to predict what is currently physically impossible to predict.
Then someone might argue it is not impossible for omniscience to do that but then we’re back in “believe it” territory and not “there is a logical explanation” territory.