Providence exists
If providence exists foreknowledge must exist, because God couldn’t provide of he did know what was coming.
If foreknowledge exists than freewill cannot exist, because God couldn’t know what was going to happen unless it was necessary that it was going to happen.
Boethius presents this argument to Lady Philosophy, and philosophy argues that free will foreknowledge and providence might all exist at the same time, because God has an intelligence that is at an entirely higher level than ours, just as our intelligence is at a higher lever than other animals. Animals have senses and imagination, humans have truth through reason, but God has all of this plus eternal and divine knowledge. God sees all time as if it were set out on a table, for eternal means that God experience every moment in one moment. Therefore it is possible that we have free will, providence and foreknowledge.
Philosophy and Boethius continue arguing and eventually agree that God is so amazing that free will, providence and foreknowledge do all exist. I this part of the story, because it really brings out the glory of God and shows that the work is Christian. Most Importantly it show that God is very mysterious.
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