Expert: Griff Ruby - 11/13/2005

Question
Can we escape from God's knowledge? If e.g. God "knows" that I'll commit a murder tomorrow, can I not commit that murder? If I am able to not commit the murder, this means God was wrong. If I cannot escape from God's knowledge, I am not guilty for that crime because it was impossible for me to avoid it.

Answer
It is always you who makes the decision, never God.  He simply knows (even before you do) what that decision is going to be.  If you are able to decide not to commit the murder then God will have already seen that you would go on to avoid committing the murder, but He knew you would avoid murdering all along.
Of course, what God knows about our future is quite academic anyhow since we don't know what any of that is.  So there can be no "God knows that you are going to commit a murder tomorrow" as we can never know that God knows that, if indeed that were even what it is He knows about tomorrow.
So, we live, doing the right thing, and it is our choice to do that right thing and avoid the wrong things, and that is the choice that God will see in our future.