Has anyone heard of the “power model” of God’s foreknowledge? Could God choose of His own sovereignty to limit His foreknowledge, in order to give us true free will? What are your thoughts?
Isaiah 43:25 (ESV): “I, I am he
who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
and I will not remember your sins.
Does God choose to blot out our sins to the point where, out of His sovereignty, He removes them from His memory?
God is the ONLY one who can literally forgive and forget, where its never brought up again. Whereas us, no matter how honest and genuine we are in forgiving someone, we still remember the offense. I don’t think God is blocking his foresight of the future, he knows everything.
Stick with SCRIPTURE
God doesn’t “forget”. He chooses to not hold those sins against us.
Brayden Benton Just find a good orthodox church. Start watching RC Sproul’s videos. His website is https://www.ligonier.org
You’ve got to get away from all these fringe views. Open theism has been refuted for a long time.
God declares the end from the beginning.
Gotta fix something there. Forgetting something and not remembering something are two different things. God doesn’t remove it from His memories but just don’t remember it. He doesn’t forget your sins but He won’t remember it anymore.
God doesn’t need to limit his foreknowledge in order to give us more freedom because 1. His foreknowledge does not entail fatalism (think of a barometer- it’s the weather that determines the barometer’s reading not the barometer determining the weather). So God’s foreknowledge is logically prior to our free choices such that if our free choices were different, God’s foreknowledge would also be different.
2. If he is omniscient then he must know every truth there is to be known and that would include his hypothetical knowledge (middle knowledge) of future contingent events (think of the ghost of Christmas future – the ghost doesn’t tell Scrooge what will be, but what would be under certain conditions). With this middle knowledge God could achieve his plans for the world using the totally free choices people make prior to his divine decree to actualize this world.
This is actually the way I envision his power. That he may do all things. But he chooses with infinite wisdom and righteousness to do what is good.
To clarify, I’m not hereby stating I am part of this belief/doctrine. But the general description describes what I have come to know quite accurately.
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