Marakesh 𓅦 on Nostr: > "What [Open Theist Greg] Boyd has to say is that God is so smart that he has ...

> "What [Open Theist Greg] Boyd has to say is that God is so smart that he has contingency plans for everything that happens. So he's like a sort of chess master who's playing a game against a novice and the chess master is so skilled that he knows whatever he will do in response to the novice's move. Now, he doesn't know what the novice will do – the novice may do things that are unexpected – but he knows that whatever move the novice makes he knows how he will respond to that. Now, what's odd about that is that ascribes to God a kind of divine middle knowledge of his own decisions, that God would know whatever the novice does this is how I would react. And that actually destroys divine freedom because it would make God have middle knowledge of his own actions prior to God's divine creative decree of a world. And on the Molinist view what God has middle knowledge of is statements about what creatures would freely do in any circumstances. But God doesn't know the truth of statements about what he would do in any circumstances prior to the divine creative decree—that would remove or annihilate human freedom. Rather what God knows by his middle knowledge is what any creature would freely do in any circumstances, and then God chooses to actualize one of those worlds involving those circumstances and, at the same time, simultaneously declares what he would do in any of these circumstances. So on Boyd's view, if he thinks that God has this pre-volitional middle knowledge of his own decisions that's actually going to destroy divine freedom, paradoxically. So I think Greg's view is not carefully thought out..."
https://www.reasonablefaith.org/media/reasonable-faith-podcast/four-views-on-divine-providence/#:~:text=What%20Boyd%20has,carefully%20thought%20out