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Quote by: Morality Games  Potentiality is a ... well, I don't want to say illusion because of my dislike of the term, but for the purposes of this thead, there you go -- because of our creativity, we are able to imagine on basis of the available information that we can do many things, but even this analysis of the possibilities is part of a systematic way of behaving. Ultimately, we are bound to pick just one of the possibilities, and like the activity of analyzing the possibilities itself, this depends on the circumstances pertaining to the deciding agent. |
Just because only one option can possibly be picked does not mean that free will is non-existent. Your supposing that an immutable nature creates our being when it could be true that our being creates our nature. Our choice create what we are.
(I know you said you hate the word but still). Potentiality is not an "Illusion." What would that even entail? Change is an illusion. Being is an illusion. All these make sense because anything can be an illusion if our beliefs entail it to be so. Not everything that does not exist is an illusion. Granted only actuality has being and potentiality is the privation of being but in such a way that it is susceptible to become. So it is not wholly non-being but the absence of being with the ability of becoming.
As for God, it supposes that God is a non-transcendent entity. Most theist hold God as that which is beyond time and eternally unchanging which means even with foreknowledge God could still have free will (which would seem to contradict his immutability.).