God, though He may allow evil, does not create evil, therefore He did not know Lucifer was going to rebel.
Then by what outside influence did evil enter the world?
If he just "allows" evil, then he had to "allow" the influence of it. I'm not talking about allowing Satan. I'm talking about, what did he allow that influenced Satan?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying God does evil... But the THOUGHT had to have been placed there by him. My free will friends can argue about this all day long but unless you provide an outside influence to God's creation OTHER THAN GOD, the thought was placed there.
Also, that when a person commits murder, God did not know that person was going to do that ahead of time.
So, let me just follow their logic maybe...
He created creation in such a way that it'd ultimately leave to Jesus being crucified (which as we see was part of God's will, read Acts 4:27-28), but he didn't see what he set in motion coming to pass? How's that make any sense?
How did he know creation wouldn't flop? After all, if he doesn't know everything that'll happen, how did he know he designed the atom correctly?
Read Genesis 20:6. He knows the king was about to sin so STOPS what was YET TO COME.
Follow this argument. If God does not know something, that means there is something he can learn. A learning God could then change his mind based upon his new knowledge. A learning God is NOT the same God as yesterday, today, and tomorrow, as Hebrews 11 and 1 Samuel 15:29 teaches us.
If God doesn't know what will happen, then that means the prophecies he gave the prophets could be wrong. Jesus might not have been the Messiah! Ask your Bible Study group where their hope comes from, then. They cannot rely upon prophecy as if God doesn't know the future then prophecies are worthless.
And yet Jesus calls in John 17:17 God's word "the truth"... So God's ability to see the future IS truth!
Read Ephesians 1. Talk about predestination. How can a God choose us before the beginning of the world without knowing we would exist?
Did you bring up Psalm 139?
How do they take Revelation????? If God cannot know all things then their hope in Revelation is for naught.
They were saying that God knows everything that is going to happen to believers, but He does not know everything that a non believer is going to do.
Isn't that a contradiction?