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Precognition is usually associated as a supernatural quality.

If precognition is true, then everything that follows from an event is determined by that event.

If everything is determined, do we have free will?

Is this a paradox? Can god exist if precognition is true?

If precognition is false, do we have free will?

If we have free will, does God exist?

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  • What do you mean by "precognition"? In addition, please give an example of a real case, not a fictitious case. Thanks.
    – Jo Wehler
    Commented Aug 13 at 22:49
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    @JoWehler I expected your rebuttle.
    – 8Mad0Manc8
    Commented Aug 13 at 22:53
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    It's not a rebuttal, but a call for clarification.
    – Jo Wehler
    Commented Aug 13 at 22:55
  • @JoWehler I know de ja vue has had an attempt of an explanation. If I had, then the matter would be resolved, and not open to speculation .
    – 8Mad0Manc8
    Commented Aug 13 at 23:05
  • If you mean precognition as in the "psychic" human ability to predict future events, then it doesn't necessarily follow that "everything" is determined by the current state of matter (it may instead just be some things, or this ability may exist outside of that). And it's not things being determined from "an event", unless you define "event" to be the current state of matter. And this isn't an "if and only if" - if precognition implies determinism, that doesn't mean determinism implies precognition (so precognition being false says nothing about determinism).
    – NotThatGuy
    Commented Aug 14 at 1:13

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beginner here. If you’re referring to the Christian God, I don’t think it contradicts. In Christianity, free-will doesn’t really seem to exist due to God being all knowing and seeing how everything plays out (“God’s plan”). In this perspective, I don’t think pre-cognition necessarily contradicts.

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  • Your right if god had a plan then precognition would be a state of that plan. The Christian God as far as I know it is omniscient and omnipotent. These two concepts are incompatable. If god knows everything can his omnipotence change it? If God exists that god is just as vulnerable as we are.
    – 8Mad0Manc8
    Commented Aug 13 at 23:41
  • @8Mad0Manc8 I agree with this. I tried to take a perspective to answer the question, but I do believe that God is contradictory in Christianity. Perhaps he is simply vain and likes to hype himself up rather than actually being what he and his writers claim. I always found that the only plausible answer.
    – Gelatin
    Commented Aug 13 at 23:50
  • I believe in a God that can reduce itself to its own creation and no more it's judgement is a self reflection. If it condemn man it condems itself as an equal.
    – 8Mad0Manc8
    Commented Aug 13 at 23:57
  • Now your thinking a vain God contradicts a responsible God. I believe God is not black and white and distinguishes simply to absolute right and wrong. A God that does that is an asshole.@Gelatin
    – 8Mad0Manc8
    Commented Aug 14 at 0:03

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