 To illustrate, let us consider how the limbs of the pentad, excepting (2), entail the negation of (2). Being omniscient, God knows that Oswald freely chose to kill Kennedy. But Oswald’s L-freedom precludes us from saying that God’s knowledge of this contingent fact depends solely on the divine will. For it also depends on Oswald’s L-free authorship of his evil deed, an authorship that God cannot prevent or override once he has created L-free agents. But this is inconsistent with the divine aseity. For to say that God is a se is to say that God is not dependent on anything distinct from himself for his existence or intrinsic properties or states. But, by (4), God is in the state of knowing that Oswald freely chose to kill Kennedy, and his being in this state depends on something outside of God’s control, namely, Oswald’s L-free choice. In this way the divine aseity is compromised, and with it the divine simplicity.