I must respond to your position on open theism. All open theists do not believe alike. As it regards the future Open Theism is as valid an idea as any of classical theologys teachings that attempt to reconcile mans free will and the concept of foreknowledge. You state and rightly so that God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient and open theism does not undermine these attributes at all. The issue isn’t Gods attributes, the issue is our understanding of past and future. I contend that the past is unchangeable and the future does not exist. I believe God is God precisely because he has control in the present of whatever he desires, and in the present his will cannot be restrained. No one can thwart Gods intentions and God is never subject to any authority. I do not believe as you suggest that God can fail or make mistakes. Opponents of Open Theism contend that our doctrine renders Gods prophecies undependable. Nothing could be further from the truth. God is God because whatever he determines at present to happen he is complete in his ability to bring it to pass. If God decrees that Hezekiah will live another 15 years who can resist God in the matter. God is perfect and all he created he created perfect and good. Nobody can argue that the Man and Woman God created remained good. The inherent ability to deviate from Gods will that rests in man is not itself a mistake or flaw. In fact it is the most wonderful gift God gave to man. Gods desire to commune with his creation demands that he give that creation the ability to choose that communion. Where opponents of Open Theism go wrong is in their understanding of the true nature of past and future. Both are non-existent in nature and are the product of two God given qualities. The first is Memory and the second is Imagination. Past is Memory and future is Imagination. In Genesis 2:19 God brings all of the animals to Adam to see what he would name them. Here we see these two faculties at work. Adam used his imagination to name them and of course he had to have the ability to remember them. These God given qualities unfortunately create the illusion of past and future. As one moment moves to the next the human never occupies any other position than the present and God works all his mighty works in the present. Even Christ in Matthew 6:34 says ” Take therefore no thought for the morrow…” declaring rather clearly that we must concern ourselves with the present because the present is all we can affect. We will never know the fullness of God. He is unsearchable, there is noone beside him. I am but an unworthy servant and recipient of unmerited grace. Let us reason together.
God Bless
Robert Clark