If God knows something, our God could not be wrong. If God knew the whole future, it could not change from what He knew in one atom. That would mean all time would be frozen.
However, not once does the Bible say that God declares the future where He does not determine it, cause it to happen, or do it.
God doesn’t know the future unless He acts on things or people to make it happen. God could, and sometimes does predict the future, because He makes what He predicts happen.
For example, notice how God handles something that He counsels. Isa 46:9-11 Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,’ 11 calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it.
It’s not that “Time is a creation of God, therefore it does not control Him.” that matters. God has always existed and always will. Time is onerous to us because we have to sleep, work, punch a clock-all kinds of things that time frustrates. I’m almost 74. Time and its consequences of aging are a bummer. I’m beginning to be unable to remember certain things and even people.
I thought, at one time, that God was outside of time. I believed things I was taught by good guys who taught me a lot about God. I didn’t know that many of their ideas were from Greek philosophy. I soon saw that the Bible didn’t corroborate what I was taught and believed.
What I did find from studying the Bible myself was this: There are many Scripture passages that say that God changes His mind, answers prayer or repents.
That’s why I believe there truly is an Open View theology that shows us the truth about our God.
In Christ,
Bob Hill