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Hi Robert, Welcome to the
Hi Robert,
Welcome to the site and thanks for your feedback.
Yes, Open Theists vary widely on their understanding and you have articulated probably the most common perspective. While we could bat around Scripture all day, let me focus on just that you mention - God’s decree in 2 Kings 20:1-20 that Hezekiah will live another 15 years. On openness grounds, how could God possibly make such a statment since you profess the future unknowable, even by God? Over a 15 year time span, the contingencies are simply staggering. The number of freewill choices, made not just by Hezekiah, by by all those that relate to his life and well-being for those 15 years …. none of which God knows in the openness view! … is fantastically enormous. To say that Hezekiah will live 15 more years simply because God “decrees it”, ignores an almost incalculable number of future free-will choices that are mind-boggling. (If true, then there is no such thing as “free will” as the open theist defines it.)
It must also be pointed out that the church has traditionally held the classical view of God’s omniscience. This fact alone - that open theism is a relatively new view that contradicts the historial, traditional understanding of the church - mandates extreme caution I believe.
I’d encourage you to read Millard Erickon’s What Does God Know and When Does He Know It? He presents a fair and exhaustive survey of the Openness argument and the traditional understanding. I’d be interested in your response to the arguments he raises.
peace,
Bob
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