Is God totally omniscient or are there some things for which He does not have foreknowledge. If so, what?
God foreknows everything perfectly. If possibilities are real, God foreknows them as possibilities. Although God foreknows every choice I could possibly make--even my final choice--He doesn't know my final choice as fact until after the fact. He only foreknows my final choice as a possibility. However, since God foreknows all the choices I could possibly make, He is perfectly prepared for my actual choice to the same degree He would have been prepared for it had He foreknown my actual choice as fact.Is God totally omniscient or are there some things for which He does not have foreknowledge. If so, what?
Exhaustive definite foreknowledge of future free will contingencies is not possible if libertarian free will is true (and it is).
So, God knows reality as it is correctly distinguishing possible, probable, actual/certain.
The other related issue is whether God experience eternal now timelessness or an endless duration of time. I would suggest the latter is true confirming that the future is not there yet to be know exhaustively as a certainty in relation to free will choices.
I don't know how godrulz will answer, but the OV believes that God does know the choices we will make. However, He doesn't know them as fact.So you're saying that God does not know the choices that we will make?
So you're saying that God does not know the choices that we will make?
I don't know how godrulz will answer, but the OV believes that God does know the choices we will make. However, He doesn't know them as fact.
Is God totally omniscient or are there some things for which He does not have foreknowledge. If so, what?
What do you mean by 'knowledge'? For me, it's a house, for another a mansion, for another a residence, for another it's home, for others it's an address, for still others it's just a pile of bricks and mortar. For one, it's a death, for another a tragedy, for another an accident, for another a statistic, for another a problem, for another a God-send, for another a biological process. Who's right? I don't see how we can make big assertions about what God knows without first getting a realistic picture of what knowledge is in the first place.
I believe that would be omniscience, which is perhaps different from the idea and concept of foreknowledge.I guess the easiest way to say it would be, does God know all things.
I believe that would be omniscience, which is perhaps different from the idea and concept of foreknowledge.
Why wouldn't He?Not all Open Theists agree that God knows all possible choices.
The parts of the future He has settled, He knows them as settled. The parts He leaves open, He knows them as open.You seem to be contradicting yourself. He either knows future choices as fact or there is an element of uncertainty.
I agree.God does not know the future choices we will make in every detail. When He does know them, they will be known as settled facts.
The easiest answer is to say God knows all things knowable.I guess the easiest way to say it would be, does God know all things.
I submit that we should consider the Biblical usage of the word "foreknew", which is different, but might inform our "Theological" view.Omniscience is limited by what is knowable. The future is inherently not knowable in the same way the past and present are. God does have foreknowledge, but it is not exhaustive like His knowledge of the past/present is.
God knows all things that are knowable, and as He is sovereign He knows only that which He wants to know among that which is knowable.Is God totally omniscient or are there some things for which He does not have foreknowledge. If so, what?
Is God totally omniscient or are there some things for which He does not have foreknowledge. If so, what?
So you're saying that God does not know the choices that we will make?
I guess the easiest way to say it would be, does God know all things.
God knows all things that are knowable, and as He is sovereign He knows only that which He wants to know among that which is knowable.
The easiest answer is to say God knows all things knowable.
All things knowable includes all things that exist.How would God know that there is no other God beside Him? if there were a greater God He might keep Himself secret from Jahweh God and therefore be unknowable.