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Explain Like I'm Five
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that... does not sound right. humans have free will
One view is that God knows how people will end up not because He is forcing them to act a certain way, but because He has a perfect knowledge of the outcomes of their actions. Kind of like how a parent knows what the outcome of a small child's actions will be.
You're not a parent, are you? 😁
I'm not the commenter but it seems fairly obvious what they're saying.
The child doesn't know that touching the hot stove will burn them, but you do because you have a lifetime of experience.
To add to this: To the child, it's essentially magic that you know exactly where the heat starts, and how you have the ability to boil water.
If you're saying it in a light-hearted 'lol kids are chaos' way then yeah.
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.
The omnipotence, when combined with the concept of omnipresence creates a situation of god existing outside our concept of time. It’s similar to how we exist outside the concept of time held by those characters contained in a movie. At our will we can exist at any point(s) in time in the movie, because of this we already know the ending.