Of course He does. He wouldn't be God if He didn't. In fact, in Isaiah, He states that the fact that He EXHAUSTIVELY knows the future proves His diety and sets Him apart from false gods:
Isaiah 46:5-13
To whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal and compare Me, that we should be alike? They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver on the scales; They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship. They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; From its place it shall not move. Though one cries out to it, yet it cannot answer Nor save him out of his trouble. Remember this, and show yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you transgressors. Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, 'My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,' calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it. Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness: I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off; My salvation shall not linger. And I will place salvation in Zion, for Israel My glory.
Psalms 90
A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. You turn man to destruction, And say, "Return, O children of men." For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night. You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up: In the morning it flourishes and grows up; In the evening it is cut down and withers.
For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified. You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh. The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.
So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants. Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days! Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which we have seen evil. Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your glory to their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.
Romans 8:29
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Job 28 - (the whole chapter0
Ephesians 1 - (the whole chapter0
The fantasy that God is ignorant of the future is a heresy that must be rejected on scriptural grounds.
thanks for pointing it out so I can stop using it :dunce:. But lets go back the previous analogy of a football game. Lets just say God is interested in a particular football game. His knowing the outcome and all the steps that lead up to the eventual outcome illustrate that the actions are done and accounted for or predetermined. There is no freedom in improv when a miracle script is supplied to the viewers. The best you can say here is that God knew all the myriad of possible outcomes at every specific instant of that game. When God knows the future it would follow that he must know all the choices that we may be presented with or contemplate making. If it also followed that God knew which choice we were to make, the choice has been made already and gone, the future is set in the mind of God and free will is gone. Its a paradox in your view that you don't seem to grasp. The only way to alleviate said paradox is to say that God has "the best guess" as to which road we will walk down, leaving Him able to make "predictions" as to where we will end up, unknowing which one we will take for certain.
