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God Always Knew It All (Scriptures that Refute "Openness Theology")

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: ...yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
                                                                                  Isaiah 46:10, 11

Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
                                                                                  Isaiah 42:9

...Who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me....
                                                                                  Isaiah 45:21

Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
                                                                                  Psalm 147:5 (Italics mine)

For the word of God is ... a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
                                                                                  Hebrews 4:12, 13

...He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
                                                                                  Psalm 94:10

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
                                                                                  Job 24:1 (Italics mine)

O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off.
                                                                                  Psalm 139:1, 2

I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I showed it thee....
...I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
                                                                                  Isaiah 48:3, 5, 6

...For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
                                                                                  John 6:64

...For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
                                                                                  Psalm 44:21

...[God] hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.
                                                                                  Acts 17:26

him [Jesus], being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.
                                                                                  Acts 2:23 (Italics mine)

An excellent Openness Theology discussion link: Foreknowledge of God

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