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Is exhaustively settled foreknowledge essential to God’s identity
In this episode Greg discusses several passages in Isaiah that imply God’s foreknowledge is a primary differentiator between Isaiah’s God and all other gods.
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Tags: Divine Foreknowledge, Foreknowledge, Open Future, Open Theism
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