One of the most innovative, yet unbiblical, views of God, is known as Open Theism. In short, Open Theism posits that since Man is a moral character with free will, that as free agents, God cannot know our (or human) choices before we, our ourselves, make them. In other words, that which is not known, cannot be known; or, if we do not know our future choice(s), how then can God know?
Advocates of Open Theism err in their hyper-view of human choice. To be sure, our decisions are of our own making. Yet, when one examines the usual Open Theist's theology, one discovers that their pre-supposition is that a God who knows the future - even choices that are yet to be decided - cannot be a personal God, if, in fact, humans are free in their choices.
Thus, for an Open Theist, since Man comes to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Saviour of their own choice, that ability to freely make choices (albeit, about salvation) must then therefore logically extend to making ALL choices.
And since those choices are not known until the person makes them, God cannot know what those choices will be either (since God does not also know who will come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ).
So, there you have it. Open Theism. I was doing a devotion of God and His knowledge of the future and His sustaining the Universe which He created. There will be much more discussion about how this innovative view of God is sweeping evangelicalism.
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