Does God Know Tomorrow?
Keywords:
God's Foreknowledge, Divine Attributes, Traditional and conventional View of God, Theory of TimeAbstract
This paper asserts that God is fully aware of all past, present and future occurrences and that His prescience runs counter to the traditional notion of God's omniscience. God does not know is a false statement whether past, present or future. We know the past by reconstructing it from historical evidence. God does not have to do that for he has direct and immediate knowledge of the past. Open theists frequently claim that their worldview is authentically biblical and is not based on philosophy by claiming that God has divine qualities. Greek philosophy believed that God was eternal, immutable and unchangeable. Those who hold open theism can assert that God is fully aware of the future. This paper bases its interpretation on the A-theory and B-theory of time. It was linked to the notion that the present is metaphysically privileged over the past and the future. Major views about the conventional view of God were critically examined to prove the creative knowledge about God. The traditional view requires we also accept that God has a specific good reason for allowing free agents to do what they do. It was concluded that God is confident in himself and he does not need to control or foreknow everything to steer the world toward the goal he has for it. It is inaccurate to assert that God does not know the future.
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