Episode Details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riXA0yl4b54

Free Will & God’s Foreknowledge

The concept of free will & God’s foreknowledge can be a heady concept. We attempt to accurately cover three different answers free will advocates attempt to allow God to have foreknowledge (or not have it). We do our best to break it down while attempting to be accurate to supporters and the issues seen with the concepts.

Covering concepts of Arminian simple foreknowledge, open theism, and Molinism & middle knowledge as some of the big attempts to save human freedom; there are still issues with allowing God to be the God revealed in Scripture.

The sci-fi reference this week is Quantum Leap! Oh, boy.

Timeline:

00:00 – Introduction
04:08 – Free Will Doesn’t Account For Divine Foreknowledge
08:34 – Responses From Free Will Advocates About DF
08:43 – Simple Foreknowledge Of Arminianism
10:12 – Issues With Simple Foreknowledge Internally
13:12 – Issues With God’s Decrees With Simple Foreknowledge
14:27 – God & Humans Can’t Be Free To Change Within Simple Foreknowledge
15:27 – Open Theism As Another Response To DF
19:49 – Molinism As Another Response To DF
22:37 – The Importance Of Middle Knowledge In Molinism
24:15 – The Key Of Molinism
27:04 – Problems With Molinism
37:39 – Conclusion

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep148/

Books mentioned in this episode:

What about Evil? A Defense of God’s Sovereign Glory by Scott Christensen
Kindle – https://amzn.to/2UeV3tt
Hardcover – https://amzn.to/3xGsxP6

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