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If we limit God to our time experience, God’s knowledge of the future can only be seen as omniscient prediction or total sovereign control.

Well... duh.

And what is more, Jack -- if God is Omnitemporally cognizant of all possible Timestreams (including every foreordained/foreknown interaction of Providence and Will therein) and the ultimate Results thereof, and God chooses which One of an infinite number of omnitemporally foreknown Timestreams will actually be the One which He will Create... then God's knowledge of the future can only be seen as Total Sovereign Control from all eternity past.

A point which I have illustrated time and again:

Matthew 11: 20 - 27 -- Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. "Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you." At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

So, before all Creation...

God foreknew Tyre, Sidon and Sodom's free choice NOT TO REPENT in the case of His non-performance of such Miracles; AND
God foreknew Tyre, Sidon and Sodom's free choice TO REPENT in the case of His performance of such Miracles; AND
God CHOSE NOT TO PERFORM these Miracles in Tyre, Sidon and Sodom, a choice which had as its perfectly foreknown result the NON-Repentance unto Damnation of Tyre, Sidon and Sodom -- just exactly as He foreknew would be the certain and determinate result of Creating this particular scenario.

"The Epistomological Impact" of an Omnitemporal Foreknowledge enjoyed by God prior to Creation has the unavoidable effect of rendering any sort of synergistic metaphysical construct absolutely impossible, and of rendering Absolute Monergistic Predestination the only possible Rational and Sane Theology.

Arminianism/Synergism could survive in an environment where God's foreknowledge was limited to our Timestream; at least they could claim that God simply foreknew our free choices and that His Plan is therefore conditioned on those foreknown Choices. But in an Omnitemporal Foreknowledge environment, Man's Choices are the purely-dependent consequent results of God's precedent Decisions -- If God decides that He will ordain to perform miracles in Sodom, then Sodom will choose to Repent when the Time comes; and if He decides that He will NOT ordain to perform miracles, then they will choose to NOT repent. Their decisions have, therefore, already been predestined for them before they are ever born, by God's determinative Election of just which Omnitemporally Foreknown time-stream He is going to Create.

Ergo, Omnitemporal Foreknowledge enjoyed prior to Creation has the unavoidable effect of rendering Absolute Monergistic Predestination the only possible Rational and Sane Theology. As I said before... duh.

Sheesh -- Jack Carter did not realize this logically-obvious impact of Omnitemporal Foreknowledge against any possible synergistic construct?

And he's a doctoral student??
(Do you think that any of his Professors know??)