Originally posted by carpedm9587
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(1) I agree that God's omniscience of itself doesn't constrain our free will
(2) In any particular universe that is actually created, the particular choices you make are your free choices. That in another, uncreated universe, you [i] might have [i] made some other free choices seems irrelevant, since that 'you' doesn't exist, and even if it did, it would have made its own free choices.
I think that (1) is the key point. God's omniscience doesn't require fatalism. Our 'inability' to make choices that some other version of us might have made in some hypothetical and non-existant universe is no constraint on our free will any more than God instantiating a universe where humans can't fly unaided is a constraint on it.
I don't see free will as being able to choose to do absolutely anything. So not being able to make choices we might have made in an alternative non- existant universe is not a constraint on our freewill either.
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