The tension between human free will and God’s knowledge of the future threatens both. It’s called God’s ‘foreknowledge’—God knowing now what will happen... video Can Free Will Survive God’s Foreknowledge? Episode 12 Season 14 26:47 Watch
If God is infallible and knows the future perfectly, then God knows what I will do at every moment from my birth to my death. So where’s my free will? video If God Knows the Future, What is Free Will? Episode 10 Season 07 26:45 Watch
God is supposed to have perfect knowledge, which includes all true statements about the future. Does this mean that God knows everything about what is to come? But if the... video How Could God Know the Future? Episode 01 Season 03 26:46 Watch
What would it mean for God to know the future? Know the general patterns of history and lives? Or know every last, minute fact about every possible thing that happens? Next,... playlist Does God Know the Future? Topic Series 6 videos 52:29 Watch
God needs perfect knowledge in order to be God, which includes knowing now exactly how future events will unfold. Does this mean that God knows everything about what is to... playlist How Could God Know the Future? Topic Series 8 videos 1:21:16 Watch
For God not to know the future in every last detail threatens traditional theologies. There’d be worry over God’s providence, God’s promises. If the future... playlist Perhaps Even God Doesn't Know the Future? Topic Series 5 videos 48:27 Watch
Why is an ‘open’ future controversial among theologians? If the future is not ‘settled’, if there is no certainty from God’s viewpoint of how... playlist Is the Future Open? Topic Series 7 videos 1:07:56 Watch
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Predestination is ultimate destiny, fate. It is the claim by some religions that a Supreme Being, whether a personal God or a cosmic force, has determined for individual... playlist What is Predestination? Topic Series 4 videos 40:29 Watch
William Lane Craig Philosopher and Philosophical Theologian; Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, Biola University
Paul Fiddes Principal Emeritus, former Chairman, Faculty of Theology and Religion, St Peter’s College, Oxford
Arthur Hyman Professor of Philosophy, former Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and Rabbi, Yeshiva University
John Polkinghorne Professor of Mathematical Physics, President, Queens' College, Cambridge; Anglican priest; Templeton Prize recipient
James Tabor Professor and former Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Dean Zimmerman Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion, Rutgers University