God knows the all-encompased past, present, and future. No devout Christian would try to refute this statement, but many do so without trying. When a belief is accepted as true, one must accept the implications of said belief as true also, lest the logic for the belief become inconsistent, and thus lack a foundation. This is the problem that is present in many Christian's understand of omniscience (complete knowledge). They accept omniscience as true, but deny an attribute called sovereignty. Sovereignty is a word meaning basically "complete control". To put all of this more succinctly, many Christians assert that God knows all (The base belief), but deny that God has planned all (The implication of the base belief). This is a large problem in today's liberal theology that makes God seem weak and impotent. It needs to be addressed.
Let's begin to adress this problem on a base that all Christian's would agree with: humans are individuals with distinct personality's. We all have unique desires and passions that make us who we are. Can we all agree with this? Most unbeliever's would even agree with this truth, it is indispensable. From this basic truth, the Christian must concede that God created us differently; with our personal desires. Seeing as God does not create without a purpose (For his glory), it must be admitted that our personal ambitions, our unique outlooks on life, our different passions, have been put there for a purpose; and if everyone has specific passions, everyone has a purpose; since everyone has a purpose, the world has a purpose. Following? Furthermore, granted omniscience, if the world has a purpose, God knows the purpose for the world; if God knows the purpose for the world, than he has known it from before time began. What follows is this: If God has known the purpose for the world before time began, than he had the ability to fit said purpose to his goal. And in adjusting the purpose for the world, he must adjust personal passions, lifestyles, and desires. In doing so, he has inevitably planned for a world that follows his outline and will meet his goal. We have fallen into sin because it is in God's plan; we have crucified our Lord because it was God's way of showing us his amazing grace; we have suffered because God wants us to understand what Christ went through for us. Everything happens because God has ordained it to.
In denying that God has planned out personal lives, one can see now that they are denying complete omniscience; and accepting "partial-omniscience", that is, they believe God knows, but deny he has known from eternity. It is wrong for us to simply accept what is being taught in many churches and to not investigate it ourselves, if we do so, we fall into a inconsistent belief, such as this, that makes God appear as a being who puts us humans above himself; with all due respect, that is not the God I follow.
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