God in Eternity and Time: A New Case for Human Freedom (Biblia.com)

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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...

There is no reason to think, by the way, that God knew this about Abraham because he put Abraham in a set of circumstances where the only choice he had was to obey. Nothing in the biblical account suggests such a thing. We live in the here and now, and God really interacts with us here and now. The full meaning of this interaction is here and now. The decisions that determine things are made here and now. God’s knowledge and purposes in eternity were to test Abraham and respond appropriately, whether

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