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The big fish to fry may be Calvinism vs Arminianism, but Open Theism is one of the bigger debate in evangelical circles more recently. There are a few amateur Open Theists that would say that God chooses to not know the future, but this is a denial of omniscience, even by Open Theism standards. The way God voluntarily limits His foreknowledge (the past, present, future are fundamentally different by His creative choice, contrary to Einstein’s error) is to create a non-determinisitic universe. God is not ignorant of anything, but there are somethings inherently unknowable, even to an omniscient God. So, when God sovereignly created a universe with significant others with genuine free will, this introduced an inherent inability to exhaustively know the future (I am assuming eternal now is a false view and unhelpful anyway). He knows reality as it is and knows the future as possible, probable, certain (in some things), but not actual since the future is not there yet and not a possible object of certain knowledge, even for an omniscient God who knows all things. So, it is a consequence of God’s sovereign choice, not a denial of God’s omniscience (we differ on what are possible objects of certain knowledge, not whether God is omnisicent or not, He is). For me, the accusation that Open Theism denies omniscience is like a Calvinist saying Arminians deny the sovereignty of God. No, we deny their wrong view of God’s sovereignty and free will, not the legit concepts. I am denying a wrong view of omniscience, not that God is omniscient. Open Theists would share the same concerns about Calvinism, TULIP, etc. as Arminians and use similar arguments (just as Calvinists will use similar arguments against Open Theism/Arminianism relating to free will, non-decretal views, etc.).