Free-Will & the Independent Seer

Consider a video recording of a football match. As the game was actually played the players have absolute freedom to act of their own volition. However, watching this later their actions obviously will not change, which is not to say that they were deprived of free will as they acted. Similarly we could talk of God as an observer of life existing free of our notion of time, knowing exactly what happens within our time, but this not contradicting the freedom of movement of people within time and earthly life.

To add, a supposed branch of Christianity like Calvinism seems to make exactly this dry ‘rational’ error of confusing knowledge of what happens in time with determining what happens. That knowing how the match turns out means the players have no free will when in the act of playing.

And to also add, I wrote and posted this ages ago, but have changed the title from External Seer to Independent Seer, as “External” here again pushes one towards a sense of materialistic divide that isn’t really desirable here. To be honest, “Independent” isn’t that great either, but anyway!