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What Did God Know And Pastor Bill Farrow |
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One
of the most troubling new ideas that has come on the theological scene in
the past few years is the idea that God is changeable and especially that
His krowlege is both partial and fallible. The theological implications of
such thinking are staggering. It
is my conviction that all of this is a logically constructed thing that is
rooted the a priori assumption that in order for man to be responsible he
must be free. Further, they assert that if God knows in the way that
traditional theism maintains, then that freedom is destroyed. They do not,
to my understanding, try to demonstrate
this Biblically, but rather, argue it from a more visceral and
emotional level. A fundamental problem is that they misdefine freedom. They make the classic error of drawing the conclusion that if all possibilities are not equally possible, then one is not truly free. That is, if one is not equally free to choose between all available choices, then one is not truly free. They ignore the effect of the nature itself on the ability to choose. They assume the essential goodness of the human being and then, from that starting point, build their case. This is actually giving man more ''freedom" than even God has. God's nature limits Him. It is impossible, for instance, for God to lie. He cannot violate His nature. So it is with you and I. All of this is to say that God's Knowledge is essential to His Being. He knows determinatively. What He knows must happen in the way in which He knew it. It is true that this has a bearing on man. But we dare not draw back and make man more free than God is. |