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Foreknowledge-Debate Documentation Record

PROBLEM: The question in the screenshot's middle video — if God knew man would sin, how is God all-knowing and man free? — is the theological fatalism dilemma, debated for centuries and still unsettled: Pike's 1965 formulation, Boethius and Aquinas on divine timelessness, Ockham on the necessity of the past, Molina's middle knowledge, Augustine on alternate possibilities, open theism denying infallible foreknowledge. The debate is documented; the positions are scattered across centuries of texts with no single record of them.

SOLUTION: A debate documentation record: each position logged with its author, its date, and the premise it denies — so the centuries-old argument is on one record, with no side declared the winner.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Foreknowledge and Free Will" (Fall 2022): https://plato.stanford.edu/archIves/fall2022/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/ — Pike (1965); Boethius and Aquinas (timelessness); Ockham; Molina (middle knowledge); Augustine; open theism (Pinnock et al. 1994; Sanders 1998). The SEP states the debate "is not settled."

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