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{{short description|Contention that omniscience is incompatible with free will}} {{Atheism sidebar |arguments}} {{Philosophy of religion sidebar |God}} The '''argument from free will''', also called the '''paradox of free will''' or '''theological fatalism''', contends that [[omniscience]] and [[free will]] are [[Incompatible-properties argument|incompatible]] and that any conception of [[God]] that incorporates both properties is therefore inconceivable.{{fact|date=February 2021}} See the various [[Omniscience#Controversies|controversies]] over claims of God's omniscience, in particular the critical notion of [[predestination|foreknowledge]].<ref name="stanford">''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/ Foreknowledge and Free Will]</ref><ref name="iep">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/foreknow|title=Foreknowledge and Free Will|last=Swartz|first=Norman|website=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy|access-date=26 August 2017}}</ref> These arguments are deeply concerned with the implications of [[predestination]].
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