No Free Will

I truly believe that there is no free will. This is my reasoning for it:

To me free will means we choose our path/destination in life. Free will would give us the choice to choose to go left or right when a fork appears in our road of life.

However God is supposed to be all seeing and all knowing, which i believe in. So if God is all seeing and all knowing God already k ows which path each of us will take. If God knows which path we will take than we have no free will because God already knows whoch path we will choose.

If you claim that you have free will and your path isn't already chosen than you can not claim that Gos is all seeing and all knowing. And by your point of view, God doesn't know all and see all, which would thus make God cease to exist.

This is of course the most simplest way to state what free will is but if you spent half a second thinking about it you'll realize I'm correct. If you disagree you're either closed minded or too ignorant to think it through

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Renaci · 36-40

If we really had free will we could choose to take both forks of the road at the same time. But free will is an illusion. We think we have free will because we have options between several choices. But true free will would give us ALL choices.
Also the physical laws of nature are mechanistic above the quantum level and inhibit free will. Genetics, brain patterns all FORCE us to do and act in ways they determine.
And those are even without bringing religion into it. If you include theism then in order for God to be all knowing he must know all outcomes like you say here. But it also prevents him from being all powerful or having free will of his own as he would never be able to tell or pick a future he does NOT already know. Thus omnipotent and omniscience are paradoxical and incompatible within the same being. And if God can not be both at the same time he is not a god. Therefore no gods exist in addition to free will not existing.
Of course there can be lesser beings that can claim to be and/or are considered gods by their followers but it literally makes all gods false gods.