Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views (Biblia.com)

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The question of the nature of God’s foreknowledge and how that relates to human freedom has been pondered and debated by Christian theologians at least since the time of Augustine. And the issue will not go away. More recently, the terms of the debate have shifted, and the issue has taken on new urgency with the theological proposal known as the openness of God. This view maintains that God’s...

he was about his own character as well as about the character of the Messiah. Like most Jews of his time, Peter believed that the Messiah would be a military leader who would not suffer but rather would vanquish his enemies. This explains why Peter opposed Jesus’ teaching about the need for his sacrificial suffering (e.g., Mt 16:21–23). It also explains why Peter appeared so courageous when Jesus was performing miracles but became cowardly after Jesus’ arrest. His false expectations of what Jesus

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