"And if God could look down 'through time' to see who would and would not be saved, couldn't He peek to see what the right decisions would be?"
Would you create a being knowing it was predestined to suffer an eternity in Hell? I'm not talking about the Bible or doctrine here...I'm asking about you personally. What would you do?
17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[g] 18Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
There lies the fundamental flaw in your theology, kid: anthropocentric rationalization. You are not God. His ways are not your ways. It doesn't matter what you or I would do. It matters what God DID do, and our source for that is Scripture not vain speculation.
Frumanchu-“There lies the fundamental flaw in your theology, kid: anthropocentric rationalization. You are not God. His ways are not your ways. It doesn't matter what you or I would do. It matters what God DID do, and our source for that is Scripture not vain speculation.”
Frumanchu is right. We don’t know God’s way or why He does what He does. The fact of the matter is the Bible says there are some who are predestined to suffer an eternity in Hell. No matter whether you hold a Calvinist or an Arminian perspective, one can not escape this fact. How this happens is debatable.
Open Theist is the worst sort of heresy because it demeans the very nature of God by giving Him human traits and characteristics comparing God to man. The end of Open Theist is man is free to do what he wants and when he dies God will just welcome him into His arms or obliterate his soul because God is love. Sorry, it doesn’t work like that and we don't make the rules.