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No, you read that into whatever passages you're thinking of. Biblically, God knows what He wants to know of that information that is knowable. There is not one single syllable of the bible you can find that will contradict that statement. Any and every attempt you make will require you to read...

Biblical is what it is. It's only heretical for those who worship Aristotle's god.

Saying it doesn't make it so!

Brilliant point!

The Reformers also taught that all of our "moral self‑presentation and attempts at uprightness" or lack thereof was all predestined to either happen or not happen before time began and will or will not happen precisely in accordance with God's own sovereign declaration and for no other reason.

He isn't omniscient! At least not in the classical sense of that word! The real God is not the god of Aristotle. As for causing people to doubt, that's sort of a laughable objection, right? The version of God you believe in is omniscient, right? Does that seem to have prevented people from...

You! Your AI bot has failed you. Open Theism is not principally about reconciling free will with divine foreknowledge. It's about reading the bible and taking it to mean what it actually states, not what we want to read into it as is exemplified in every single one of the proof-texts it fed to you.

As are a great many other traditional things. Biblically, God knows everything knowable THAT HE WANTS TO KNOW and is able to find out anything knowable that He doesn't already know. He is not required to be a first person witness to every event that happens and He is fully capable of giving...

Excellent questions all, but they won't move him an inch. His belief in God is not rational, it is emotional. Indeed, he very likely believes that his willingness to believe the irrational is what it means to be pious and that the act of turning off one's mind is faith itself. No argument can...

The Omniscience you speak of is unbiblical.

I couldn't care less what Nietzche said that Christianity is. On the contrary. Your post is still there for everyone to read. I quoted it directly. Just what is it that you think the word "nihilism" means? nihilism /nī′ə-lĭz″əm, nē′-/ noun The doctrine that nothing actually exists or that...

Such a paradox does not belong to the biblical worldview but to Aristotle's. The biblical God is not Omni-whatever in the Classical sense of those terms. God's attributes.... Classical Biblical God knows everything, without exception or qualification. God knows what He wants to know of...

First, I'd just like to say that it's nice to find someone new on TOL who appears to have read more than one book in his lifetime and who can articulate himself with some degree of linguistic alacrity. This should prove interesting! Your thesis rests on a key assumption that is quite false...

I'm reminded of something from a book I read years ago.... “There being no cause in the creature why Grace should be shown, the creature must be brought off from trying to give cause to God for His Grace… He has been accepted in Christ, who is his standing! He is not ‘on probation.’ As to his...

Way to ignore what I said. Brilliant! Don't flatter yourself. My reasons have to do with accuracy. Jew are NOT Christian - period. Any third grade child can tell you that. You're stupid. Ignorant and stupid. You don't get to redefine widely used words with totally intuitive and common...

OR... It could be more or less just what it's claimed to be - brilliant diplomacy that alters the complexion of the middle east for the foreseeable future. It wouldn't be the first time that there was an era of relative peace and stability.

I've always loved that phrase, "the love of the truth". That is truly the key! And the definite article is present in the Greek is it "the truth" that Paul is talking about. Paul is not talking about a vague appreciation for truth in general. He is pointing to a definite, recognized truth...

You should write it! That sounds like the beginnings of a book, actually. I watched a YouTube video several months ago. The content creator was talking about 'writing to learn' and advised his viewership, instead of merely researching a topic that they're interested in, that they should set...

There is actually a term for this. It's called "entrenchment". People make decisions based on a perceived cost/benefit analysis. There is no actual analysis done in the methodical sense of the word, but merely on an intuitive basis. Someone perceives an idea and a lightning calculation is done...

Catholic dogma is up to it's eyeballs with legalism of every make model and color. Do you or do you not believe that believers are obliged to follow the Ten Commandments?