Divine Foreknowledge in the Old Testament
The future is partly open to God, for God cannot foreknow the decision free agents shall make. God is omniscient... But the reality God perfectly knows is partly composed of possibilities, 'maybes.' Hence, while God knows much of the future as settled- for he can sovereignty decide to settle whatever the wishes -- he knows some of the future as a 'maybe.'" is the best summarized accounts for the words and action of God in these two passages? Explain?
Catholic, Christian theology came to reject predestination as a doctrine. It instead stressed the freedom of the human will to choose to fall from grace in Eden, or to accept God's grace, although some strains of Protestantism came to embrace the idea that some people were saved and some people were condemned since the beginning of time by God's will and divine grace. Exodus 32:7-14 contains similar themes as the Genesis 2 chronicle of fall from Eden, as it depicts humanity's ungratefulness and disobedience. God rebukes Moses for the Israelite's worship of the golden calf. But Moses redeems his people through his plea. The fact that God seems to be taken surprise by human action, and the fact that the Lord can also change his mind in the last verse of the passage, Exodus 32: 14, suggests free will exists, or the ability of humanity to change the world through prayer, and the idea that not all of the future is already decided -- the 'maybe' exists in the form of humanity's to show free will to obey or disobey, and to beg for forgiveness.
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