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Can an omniscient being and free will coexist?

Apologize if this scenario has been brought up multiple times.  Assuming that there exists an omniscient being that knows the past, present and future and knows everything that you will do prior to you making any decision would it be possible for free will to exist within this framework?
gpt
Omniscience with foreknowledge on its own most likely does not pose a threat to free will.

However, you may find the following consideration interesting. Spinoza argues in his *Ethics* that God is a necessary being in the sense that God cannot be otherwise than the way he actually is. He also essentially argues that what is rooted in an absolutely necessary basis must, itself, be necessary. 

In Part 1 of *Ethics*, Spinoza says, 

>Everything depends upon the abilities of God. In order for things to be different than they are, the will of God would necessarily have to be different. But the will of God cannot be different (as we have just demonstrated very clearly from God’s perfection). Neither therefore can things be different.

If he is correct about this, then neither God nor man has free will in the sense of being able to do otherwise. 

Granted, Spinoza’s conception of the nature of God is quite different from orthodoxy.