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How does God get his foreknowledge of what choice Pete will make?
Are you saying when I choose between A & B, I don't really have a free choice between the two and that it has already been determined prior to my choice which one I will choose?
I believe it isn't free in the sense that you think it is, but it's not necessarily determined.
Well, what you experience first hand is purely subjective, so by saying that it does nothing to actually support the notion of a libertarian free will. And that's the definition of free will you are describing. It's not simply what I prefer to call your position, it's the name given by the prior philosophers who debated the subject.
You have also yet to show that if God chose to inform Pete of his decision that Pete can choose other than what God told him. Also, I have not dodged this question but have went over with you. Remember, I said something like I am not sure if Pete could choose otherwise, but perhaps God informing Pete is that much more of a deterministic factor that ensures Pete will choose A. Perhaps what God has actually foreseen is informing Pete of his choice and him opting otherwise and keeping that from Pete.
Exactly, subjectivity does nothing to show others of what you have experienced. I have first hand of experiencing the taste of superman ice cream, but I cannot as a means of my tasting experience can show it to be the correct and best flavor. Do you understand how subjectivity works?
This is precisely the type of answer which prompts my thread "Why are Christians so evasive?"
If from God's perspective, everything has already happened, then does God have the freedom to choose between A or B?
What do you personally experience when you make a choice between A & B? Let's say you end up choosing B. Prior to you making the choice of B, could you still have chosen A?
When you make a choice of A instead of B, could you have still chosen B prior to the point in time you chose A? If so, then you had an unimpeded free will choice to choose A or B. If not, then why could you have not chosen B if the choice was available to you?
It's not irrelevant. It's clear to me you're using "irrelevant" as an means of avoiding the discomforting thought that the Christian God you believe in may be false. But more importantly, you're now saying that God is not capable of doing certain things - in this case informing Pete what he will choose prior to his choice. According to the Christians I know, the God they believe in can do anything, and that would include telling Pete what he will choose prior to Pete making that choice.
I'm wondering why you're responding to a post of mine you have already responded to and neglecting the most recent one? Anyway, I understand how you are defining free will. I get it. You can stop repeating yourself now. We are taking infallible foreknowledge into consideration here, so as I choose A and if God has foreseen that choice, I cannot then choose B. Foreknowledge, as in a deterministic factor is what prevents my ability to opt for B. So, deterministic factors is what hinders man's will from being "unimpeded" as you say.
How well can you read? I'm just asking because I've actually never claimed that God is incapable of doing anything, especially informing Pete of his desicion. What I said was God may have that ability but He does not exercise it. So it is very much irrelevant, and I find nothing you have brought up "discomforting," sorry.
What I meant is prior to you making an A/B choice in which you choose either A or B, could you still have chosen either A or B? If you couldn't have chosen either A or B, what would have restricted your choice?
Pete could potentially choose B if God intervenes.
You ask some good questions which are difficult to answer if there is a God. But if there is not a God, then the answers to your questions are very simple.
When I say free will, I mean the freedom to make an unimpeded free choice between two or more things. That type of free choice is completely incompatible with omniscience & omnipotence.
Let's say it's day 1 and Pete has not yet made his day 3 A/B choice. He could choose A or he could choose B. If God knows he will choose A, but Pete freely chooses B, then what happens to God's foreknowledge that Pete would choose A?
