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God in Eternity and Time: A New Case for Human Freedom is unavailable, but you can change that!

When theology begins with God’s eternal will and knowledge, determinism tends to result. In God in Eternity and Time, eminent scholar Robert Picirilli argues we should look first to God’s creation and the incarnation—to the created order where God has chosen to act and reveal himself. As God’s decrees and foreknowledge in eternity are then read in light of his acts in time, God’s interactions...

to alter that knowledge—that “cognitive state”—is simply to affirm in the predicate what the subject already entails. Yes, to change God’s knowledge would mean that God is not immutable or omniscient, or even always right, which is impossible by definition. Thus, it is impossible to do what is impossible to do: to make any changes in what God knows or to falsify his knowledge, once we recognize that all his knowledge of the future is exactly what the future will be and derives from that future, else
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