Is Open Theism Biblical?

Open Theism and God’s Knowledge of the Future

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

Open theism was coined in 1980 through a book called The Openness of God. The authors argued that if God knew the future, then 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. But if that were true, then how is God's word true?

God’s Sovereignty, Predestination, and the Certainty of His Promises

How can we be sure that any one of his promises will be fulfilled? How could he have known that Jesus would die on a cross as an atoning sacrifice for sins, and that Herod Impotuous Pilate, along with the Jews and Gentiles, would put him there?

The book of Acts says God predestined this. David said, Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it all together. And every day of his was written in God's book before one of those days came to be.

Biblical Proof That God Knows the Future

Job 14 .5 says a man's days are determined, and God has set his limits which he cannot pass. Isaiah 46 .10 says, He declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not yet done. God does know the future, because he has determined it.

God Cannot Be Surprised or Taught by Human Choices

Do you think that you can surprise God? Did your choices educate the Almighty and endow him with knowledge he did not previously have? Get over yourself, as 1 John 3 .20 says, God is greater than our heart and knows all things when we understand the text.