Continuing now with the discussion of the options I listed at the end of the last post.
Option one is the testimony of Open Theism. Sometimes referred to as “Process Theology”, the proponents of this position attest that God cannot know the future choices of his creatures or else those choices are not free. If He did know the future choices of His creatures then they necessarily would not be free because they could not then have chosen otherwise.
Option two is the Reformed opinion. This understanding of how God knows and interacts with time and the future, as stated before, is sometimes referred to as “Compatibilism”. The Compatibilist says that God’s creatures are free to make choices according to their desires—and in fact must do so in order for those choices to really be free. We also maintain that God’s decree of an event to bring ultimate good and man’s plan to sin in the very same event are compatible, so that the resulting consequences may accomplish both of those ends: man’s sinful ones and God’s holy ones. Consider Joseph’s brothers selling him into slavery in the book of Genesis.
Option three is far more involved, thus requiring a far greater amount of discussion.thus I will begin that discussion next post.
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