Some have taken the second, that God's foreknowledge is not absolute. The third alternative, that human freedom is illusory, is incompatible with LDS belief in genuine free agency and responsibility. Praise and blame, accountability and judgment, are meaningless unless humans are free. Any doctrine of foreknowledge that undercuts this principle violates the spirit and letter of LDS scripture. Consequently divine foreknowledge, however it is finally defined, is not predestination.
Divine foreknowledge is the background of foreordination.
But, again, foreordination is not pre-causation. Bibliography Hartshorne, Charles, and William L. Reese. Philosophers Speak of God. The Vitality of Mormonism, pp. Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol.