Omniscience

Omniscience is the ability to know everything there is to know.

Some have questioned whether omniscience is compatible with free will; specifically, Calvinists have argued that God knows whether a person will be saved before he is born.

However, knowing what the outcome of a man or woman's free will will be does not mean that (s)he does not have free will. It is possible for God to know how a man or woman will exercise their free will and at the same time not interfere with it.

Free Will exists, it is simply the ability to make choice, God simply knows what those choices are, before they happen.

This however raises the question as to why God would allow evil things, knowing that they would arise.

This does still however leave a contradiction in place. If God knows in advance what course your expression of free will will take then it negates your right of choice because the choice you make is ultimately predetermined by God. The fact that God does not take action to prevent your act of choice does not negate the fact that the outcome of your choice is still predetermined and unchangeable, prior to the act of your choosing.

If there is more then one option present in each choice then for God to be Omniscient then he must know all possible out comes of each choice made by anyone in any place or time since the beginning of time, INCLUDING the correct path which the natural course of events will take which again points to predetermination.