The Simulation, God, and Free Will

Here's a thought I can't get out of my head.

A lot of people believe we're living in a simulation — that everything we experience is really just code running on someone else's machine. And if you take that seriously, here's the part I keep getting stuck on: even God might not know how the simulation ends.

Think about why. At any given moment there are billions of people and trillions of things happening at once — every choice, every collision, every accident, all running concurrently. Predicting the exact result of all of that playing out looks flat-out impossible. Even for a god.

And that's where it gets interesting, because it forces a choice — and neither option is comfortable.

If God genuinely can't predict how it ends — if the simulation is too complex even for him — then God is not all-knowing. Powerful, maybe. But not omniscient.

Now flip it. If God does know exactly how it ends, then the ending is already fixed. Every choice you think you're making was written long before you made it. And in that case, we don't have free will — we just feel like we do.

So pick one. Either God isn't all-knowing, or we aren't free. You can't keep both. That's the part I can't get past.