I do not know how to say in really nice words that someone is wrong. So I will just say to Mike......You are wrong!
Isa. 46:9-10...........
“Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please”.
What Mike is suggesting here come from the theology and agenda of "Open Theism". There is A significant contingency in Christianity—(open theists)—are currently communicating that God does not have perfect knowledge of the future.
I'll be kind with you Brother. You have gained my respect more than once.
Don't come in saying I am wrong though.
Isa 41:26 Who hath
declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Major, Nagad, means to profess out, declare a thing for the future. His console shall stand, that means what He declared will stand.
God is not a fortune teller, God speaks, and it happens.
I already told you, there is zero scripture suggesting what your saying. You don't take one scripture Major and ignore 20 others.
One of your scriptures:
Job 37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
You want 20 of mine that point to exactly what I am trying to tell you? This just tells of God's wisdom. You will have to flounder and find no scripture, I'll bring you many.
It's not that God's knowledge is incomplete, it's God who speaks and the thing becomes. If you take the time to read all my post you would know this. It's not that God is a fortune teller, it's God who declares a thing according to his will and counsel and it stands fast.
Isa 48:5 I have even from the beginning
declared it to thee;
before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them
159 verses where God says............ It shall come to pass. Not foreknowledge, but the spoken Word by God.
159 Verses Major of God declaring something that will happen. You need ONE verse that just says God knows the future.
You have mistaken the Eternal Word that can not be changed with some type of fortune telling ability.
You have 159 counter verses? Want me to post them all?
Exo 33:22 And
it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
Jos 8:5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and
it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
Here are two of the 159.
God causes and creates by speaking the Word.
it's not God sitting around trying to tell the future with some crystal ball. He declares it and it stands fast.
Major:
Finally, while open theists suggest that God cannot know the future exhaustively because He changes His plans as a result of what people do, in reality it is not God who changes, but people who change in relationship to God.
You got this right, His plan though is always mercy. I already posted the scripture that it's not God's will to afflict the children of men or have to judge them harshly. I gave that already.
God's plan to bring Israel to the promise land. Israel changed that.
God's Plan to make Saul King, Saul changed that.
God's Plan to make Eli's house to be the family of priest. Eli changed that.
God's Plan to bless Adam, Adam changed that.
Do I need to go on?
Psa 135:14 For the LORD will judge his people, and
he will repent himself concerning his servants.
Love does not like to judge and have to harshly correct men. God does not plan for it to end badly. Man won't obey God and it ends badly.
God is only thinking good things about us (Jer 29:11) God is not harboring Foreknowledge that we will screw it up. God can help us not screw it up. God is looking at his ability to fix things, not our ability to mess them up badly.
Take my word on this Major, I will run you out of counter scriptures by over 100 of them. YOU HAVE ZERO MAJOR, I already researched this for over 10 years.
Jer 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because
I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Jer 18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil,
I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Is that scripture Foreknowledge Major? No, God is Love and believes they will change.
Jer 42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for
I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
If God has foreknowledge, then God causes or else God is like a fortune teller who does not know a thing until time goes by. Even Jesus said you can discern the sky when it's about to rain. Does not God's wisdom extend past men?
Before you publicly say I am wrong Major, think. I would not say a thing if I could not back it up. I am just getting started. It bothers me because I do value your Word Knowledge. Others here are so far lacking that I don't try to counter them as it's not worth my time. It would not even be fair and as you told me we need to walk in love.
159 Plus lots more. Start listing your counter scriptures brother, or learn something.
Blessings.