ABSTRACT
This chapter features thought experiments, discussion questions and further readings on divine foreknowledge and free will. Many religions and religious people talk as if they have free will. They talk about people freely choosing to obey God, or intending to sin, or following the religious commandments, etc. If God knows what people are going to do, even if he doesn't intervene in their lives, it seems that they haven't got the power to do other than what they in fact do. There is an issue with foreordination, but people are not concerned with that in this case. A useful way of looking at the problem is to remember that the problem of divine foreknowledge is silent on how it is that God could know these things. The point is simply that it seems like the claim (a) we are free, and (b) God is omniscient are simply incompatible.
