Solutions to the issues of Omniscience and Free Will

What does Aquinas deny about God's knowledge?

• That God knows nothing

• That God knows everything in advance

• That God is omniscient

• That God knows the future

What does Aquinas argue is not threatened by God's knowledge?

• Freedom

• Power

• Time

• Space

What does Aquinas argue about God's perception of time?

• God perceives time as humans do.

• God perceives time in a linear fashion.

• God perceives time all at once.

• God does not perceive time at all.

What does Aquinas say about God's knowledge of events like eating pizza?

• God sees them in the past.

• God sees them in the future.

• God sees them in the eternal present.

• God does not see them.

What is the compatibilists definition of free will?

• you are free iff (if and only if) you do what you want to do and no one is forcing you to do it. (Hume’s definition)

• You are free if you could have done otherwise.

• You are free if you follow God's will.

• You are free if you have no desires.

What is the 'Liberty of indifference'?

• The idea that free will is an illusion.

• The belief that free will is doing what you want.

• The concept that you are free if you could have done otherwise.

• The notion that free will is irrelevant.

Which solution does this summarise: There is no contradiction in claiming both that God is omniscient and that He does not know what I will do tomorrow. He does not know because until tomorrow comes there is no truth to know

• Open Future Solution

• Compatibilist Solution

• Determinist Solution

• The Timeless Solution

What is happening when I argue that God is omniscient AND even though he knows I will do, I am still enacting free will when I eat my cornflakes because no one is FORCING me to choose cornflakes?

• It shows a lack of free will.

• It demonstrates compatibilist definition of free will.

• It proves God's control over actions.

• It indicates a rejection of free will.

What does the Compatibilist solution suggest about coercion and free will?

• Coercion is necessary for free will.

• Free will exists only without coercion.

• Coercion enhances free will.

• Coercion has no effect on free will.

What does omniscience mean according to the Open Future Solution?

• Knowing all truths

• Knowing the future

• Knowing all possibilities

• Knowing all past events