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This past Spring  I read a book called  Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views  by James Beilby. If you are interested in purchasing this, you can do so on  Amazon.com . This is a comparison of four views of God's foreknowledge from different scholars. What do we mean by God's foreknowledge? We mean what does God know and when does He know it. My last post, I summarized William Lane Craig's view of God's foreknowledge: Middle-Knowledge.  Check it out here . This week I will look at the divine-foreknowledge view, which is fleshed out by Paul Helm. I will refrain from commentary until then last addition. Let me reiterate, I am not claiming which of these is my view, but rather a concise summary of the authors explanation and view of these opinions on God's foreknowledge.  Divine Foreknowledge The first argument for the Calvinist view is the “straight causal sense: God’s knowledge is the cause of things.” [1] This means there is no difference between what God causes a

This past Spring  I read a book called  Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views  by James Beilby. If you are interested in purchasing this, you can do so on  Amazon.com . This is a comparison of four views of God's foreknowledge from different scholars. What do we mean by God's foreknowledge? We mean what does God know and when does He know it. My last post, I summarized David Hunts's view of God's foreknowledge: simple-foreknowledge.  Check it out here . This week I will look at the middle-knowledge view, which is fleshed out by William Lane Craig. I will refrain from commentary until then last addition. Let me reiterate, I am not claiming which of these is my view, but rather a concise summary of the authors explanation and view of these opinions on God's foreknowledge.  Middle-Knowledge View by William Lane Craig Counterfactuals is a key concept in formulating the middle-knowledge view. Counterfactuals are “conditional statements in the subjunctive mood…Counter