While it's obvious that omniscience would completely cancel out free will, something that is not as readily apparently is the fact that being omniscient would also be mutually exclusive to omnipotence. If you have the knowledge of every future state of everything that will ever happen, you are powerless to make any alterations to any said states, anything that may be perceived as a change to a bystander would've already been known by the omniscient being.
If you could make a genuine change to the future from your perspective, it would mean you were not all knowing, if you could not it would mean you were not all powerful.
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