Is Open Theism Biblical?

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Open theism is the idea that God does not know the future, so that we can have free will.

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If God knew all the future decisions we would make, then we're bound to what He knows we will do, and we're not truly free.

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Open theism was coined in 1980 through a book called The Openness of God. The authors argued that if God knew the future, then

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He knew we would choose sin, and that makes God responsible for creating a world with sin. God is still all -knowing, but only in the sense that God knows everything that can be known, and the future is not one of those things that can be known.

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But if that were true, then how is God's Word true? How can we be sure that any one of His promises will be fulfilled?

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How could He have known that Jesus would die on a cross as an atoning sacrifice for sins, and that Herod impotent

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Pilate, along with the Jews and Gentiles, would put Him there? The book of Acts says God predestined this.

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David said, Job 14 .5

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says a man's days are determined, and God has set His limits, which He cannot pass. Isaiah 46 .10

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says He declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not yet done.

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God does know the future, because He has determined it. Do you think that you can surprise God? Did your choices educate the

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Almighty and endow Him with knowledge He did not previously have? Get over yourself, as 1

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John 3 .20 says God is greater than our heart and knows all things when we understand the text.