Foreknowledge of God

Wayne Grudem notes that,
:"If we assume that God's knowledge of the future is true (which evangelicals all agree upon), then it is absolutely certain that person A will believe and person B will not. There is no way their lives could turn out any differently than this. Therefore it is fair to say that their destinies are still determined, for they could not be otherwise. But by what are their destinies determined? If they are determined by God himself, then we no longer have election based ultimately on foreknowledge of faith, but rather on God's sovereign will. But if these destinies are not determined by God, then who or what determines them? Certainly no Christian would say that there is some powerful being other than God controlling people's destinies. Therefore the only possible alternative is to say they are determined by some impersonal force, some kind of fate, operative in the universe, making things turn out as they do. But what kind of benefit is this? We have then sacrificed election in love by a personal God for a kind of determinism by an impersonal force and God is no longer to be given the ultimate credit for our salvation" (Systematic Theology, p. 679).
==Calvinism==
: See main page: Calvinism
==Arminianism==
: See main page: Arminianism
==Molinism==
: See main page: Molinism
==Open theism==
: See main page: Open theism
==See also==
* Predestination
* Free will
==External links==
* Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
* Does God Know Everything That Could Possibly Happen?, by Don Stewart
* The Foreknowledge of God, by Loraine Boettner
* Foreknowledge and the Free Will of Men, by John Frame
* Foreknolwedge (Monergism)
Category:Attributes of GodCategory:God's Knowledge