[Avodah] A God who knows the future

[garry]

On 8/4/2011 9:32 PM, T613K at aol.com wrote:
> That's a fair question.  The problem is a problem of logic rather than 
> a practical problem.
> The logic goes like this:  Let's say that G-d knows that on Monday I 
> am going to speak to my mother in an annoyed tone of voice,  thus 
> being oveir on kibud eim.
> Now, what happens on Monday when she says something that I find 
> annoying, and in addition, I am tired and cranky when she says it?
> Two things can happen:  I can just say the first thing that comes to 
> my tongue and commit a sin.  Or, I can think twice and bite my tongue 
> and not commit that sin.
> But how can I bite my tongue and remain quiet?  If I make that choice, 
> then G-d's knowledge of what I was going to do was flawed and 
> incorrect!  So obviously, I /have/ to choose to sin, in order to make 
> it come out that G-d's foreknowledge was correct!
> As you can see, this is a conundrum only in logic and not in practice, 
> because even if He knows what I am going to do, /I/ don't know what I 
> am going to do before I do it, and at the moment it comes to my 
> choosing, I make my choice based strictly on the options before me, 
> completely without regard to what G-d knows.

I'm sorry, I still don't see it.
You seem to be saying that God knows your initial impulse to say 
something annoying, and therefore if you bite your tongue you will make 
God's knowledge incorrect.  But God also knows whether or not you will 
bite your tongue.  The choice is yours - it's just that the _ultimate_ 
outcome is known.