open theism? its consistent i can agree to that. but biblical? not really.
God declaring the end from the beginning, people being written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, being in Christ from before the foundation of the world, lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world, prophecies of such detail that if God did not know the future, it could not have been fulfilled. think the birth of Jesus or st.Peter's denial of Jesus? so many free will actions involved, God had to know beforehand what happens.
i feel like open theism is just trying to make God into the image of man, a warm and loving dad in the sky who tries His best, but things often dont go his way because bad humans just ruin it.
you get rid of the problem of evil, but run into whole other problems, big problems, like your God not passing the 'true God' test from isaiah:
Isaiah 41:23-24
Let them bring them forward and declare to us what is going to take place; As for the former events, declare what they were, So that we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us what is coming;
Declare the things that are going to come afterward, So that we may know that you are gods; Indeed, do good or evil, that we may be afraid and fear together.
"God declaring the end from the beginning,... " Even humans can declare an end from a beginning without knowing in advance all the events between and without controlling all events between. So claiming that declaring the end from the beginning requires exhaustive foreknowledge and exhaustive predetermination is simply an illogical overreach.
"... people being written in the book of life from the foundation of the world..." Names being written into a book
since the foundation of the world" is not the same as names being written into that book
before or
at the foundation of the world. The Hebrew and Greek does not get you to "people being written into the book of life at or before the foundation of the world. If they are added as history proceeds, as they appear on the stage, there is no need for exhaustive divine foreknowledge of their arrival on the scene.
".... being in Christ from before the foundation of the world..." I'd need a scripture for that claim. I don't think scripture says that anywhere. You may be erroneously paraphrasing some other scripture.
,".... lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world... " One key item identified foreknown from the beginning and brought to pass using omnipotence, does not confirm that all events were foreknown from the beginning and brought to pass using omnipotence.
,"... prophecies of such detail that if God did not know the future, it could not have been fulfilled." There are no prophecies that are so detailed that they could come to pass only if God had exhaustive foreknowledge of all future events.
"... think the birth of Jesus or st.Peter's denial of Jesus? so many free will actions involved, God had to know beforehand what happens." Yes God knew those details beforehand and announced them beforehand and brought them to pass at the time of His choosing, just as Is Isaiah described as proof that God is the LIVING GOD, with ability to decree when He wills, know what He is predicting, and has the power to bring it to pass after predicting it.
Isaiah 41:23-24
18
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys:
I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree;
I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord
hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel
hath created it.
21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
22 Let them (the stone and wooden idols that cannot speak to answer you)
bring them forth, and
shew us what shall happen: let them (the stone and wooden idols that cannot speak to answer you) shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or (let the stone and wooden idols that cannot speak to answer you) declare us things for to come.
23 [You stone and wooden idols that cannot speak to answer],
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye (the stone and wooden idols that cannot speak to answer) are gods: yea,
do good, or
do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and
your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
"... i feel like open theism is just trying to make God into the image of man, a warm and loving dad in the sky who tries His best, but things often don't go his way because bad humans just ruin it."
Regardless of your feelings, how does the Bible describe God's interactions with mankind? Does scripture report God as sometimes complaining that His plans for man have failed? Does scripture report God as sometimes regretting His own actions? Does scripture report God as sometimes changing His mind and not doing what He had earlier thought and intended and said He would do? None of these behaviours are compatible with a God who has exhaustive foreknowledge of every future event.