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eternally-grateful you sound like an Arminian..
I think we can know these things enough, through what the bible says..I just think we can't be overly dogmatic about certain things though, some we should be.
I thought Catholics are Arminian? I usually hear Calvinists say how much we are pro Catholic church because we're Arminians..that intellectual pride and dogmatism is one of the first things that drove me away from Calvinism, then I saw how it didn't line up with scripture IMO.
I think we can know these things enough, through what the bible says..I just think we can't be overly dogmatic about certain things though, some we should be.
I thought Catholics are Arminian? I usually hear Calvinists say how much we are pro Catholic church because we're Arminians..that intellectual pride and dogmatism is one of the first things that drove me away from Calvinism, then I saw how it didn't line up with scripture IMO.
To sum it briefly: God's knowledge of the future has three stages (or logican steps) as He decides what world He will create. His Natural Knowledge includes in infinite number of universes that God could create. In each of these worlds, every man and woman has a free will. These universe may include God completely changing the construction of life from carbon to silicon or some other substance. He may chose to interact with these various world's in whatever way He choses which may cause humans to make different choices.
Out of these worlds in His Natural Knowledge, only some may make sense according to what He may want to have happen. The next "stage" of His knowledge then is Middle Knowledge - all the possible choices humans might make. He then choses to create or actualize one of these worlds, the world we live in today. The events that He saw would happen in this world then become His Free Knowledge.
For more information on it and for the website I took the above two paragraphs from : basic.theology.forums > Molinism