A person can change his mind--but that would also have been foreseen. The difference is that man was created to make that choice--not to be sent to hell for the sole purpose of revealing God's glory. Omniscience does not imply causation.
It seems to me that in your definition of sovereignty, all that is happening now is just a rerun of a movie that was seen in eternity passed and everyone’s destiny has been dertermined before they were born.
That is more like the calvinist view. I am arguing against that. People's destinies, while known beforehand, are not caused beforehand. We make those decisions.
“That is more like the calvinist view. I am arguing against that. People’s destinies, while known beforehand, are not caused beforehand. We make those decisions.”
Whether you are right or Calvinists are right, in either position the number of persons condemned to hell was fixed before the foundation of the world and as history plays itself out, nothing can change that number. A person can only make the choices he was forseen to make before the foundation of the world. Since God makes the rules, doesn’t his omniscience then have a deterministic component to it? If He knows, it has to be true.
Your interpretation of sovereignty is similar to a Deists understanding since God can’t intervene in history since that intervention could be construed as “causation”; again, history is just a rerun.