Like many philosophical issues, this is a linguistic trick masquerading as a claim about the universe. If it’s possible for the future to be known, then there is no free will. It doesn’t matter whether the future is known by a god or a computer or a person; in fact it doesn’t even matter whether it is known …
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Did God predestinate atheists not to believe in him?
If by using the capital ‘G’ you mean to ask about the omnipotent God of Christian and Islamic mythology, then yes; and not just atheists. If there is an omnipotent deity, then they must have intended everything that has ever gone on in the universe, now and in the past, because if they didn’t, they …
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