If we, as people, have the ability to make a choice that is entirely up to us without the intervention of anything else, then it is a free choice . Once this choice was made, we acted freely. However, God knew we would make this decision because He sees all things through His eternity and timeless existence. This idea is both comforting and terrifying. It's comforting in the fact that I am indeed a free individual, but it's terrifying because there is something out there that knows every decision I will make throughout my life. Boethius had an interesting impact on my beliefs. I always struggled with the idea that I had no free will and that it was by divine intervention that I was here to serve a purpose. I’m definitely an existentialist in that way. I believe we don't have a purpose before we exist, we find our own purpose. In light of Boethius, I am terribly contradictory in my understanding of God. By thinking of this ideal that God sees all things, he would then know what free will would give to humanity. It has caused countless atrocities and suffering, so how can free will really be a good thing? Wondering whether free will is a good thing is a terribly confusing idea that has occurred to me. This is why, in my opinion, in the context of Boethius' term eternity, free will is possible. However, this slightly cheapens the feeling of free will because God already knows all things, so even though our choices are ours, they have been predetermined in a sense. Furthermore, to say that God has no view of all that is past, present, and future would dilute His perfection. Much of what Boethius has done for my beliefs, consistent with the ideal that God sees all things, is now to reject them.