Full Idea
God's universal foreknowledge and freedom of the will seem clean contrary and opposite.
Gist of Idea
God's universal foreknowledge seems opposed to free will
Source
Boethius (The Consolations of Philosophy [c.520], V.III)
Book Reference
Boethius: 'The Consolations of Philosophy', ed/tr. Watts,V.E. [Penguin 1969], p.150
A Reaction
The original source of the great theological and philosophical anguish over free will. The problem is anything which fixes future facts, be it oracular knowledge or scientific prediction. Personally I think free will was an invention by religions.