Divine foreknowledge encompasses events as they actually occur with their circumstances. In contrast, when we say “if the killer had not struck,” we conceive a different possible scenario. Imagining a possibility is not identical to knowing that it would occur.
For example, asking what might have happened had a patient received different treatment may be a sensible causal question. It does not automatically establish a second actual, fixed time of death.
The discussion warns against reducing divine knowledge to human conjecture or treating a counterfactual possibility as an established event.