Open Theism Debate | Is Open Theism Biblical?

"Does the Bible teach that God knows the future exhaustively?"

This debate will be broken down into 6 sub-topics chosen by the debate participants (3 for each side). Each sub-topic will be discussed for 15 minutes, with one side leading the conversation.

Open Theism
1. What does the Bible tell us as to how God obtains information?
2. According to the Bible, has God ever had the ability to change what would happen?
3. Exodus 32 is one of many examples in scripture that describe God changing His mind due to outside input.

Non-Open Theism
1. Prophecies in which God details specific future free decisions of humans (example being 1 Samuel 10:1-7)
2. Foreknowledge of free human actions as a defining attribute of Deity (example John 13:19)
3. Foreknowledge in election

Representing the Open Theism position
Will Duffy - Owner/contributor of opentheism.org, and frequent debate participant.

Chris Fisher - Author of the book, "God is Open". Chris runs a podcast called God is Open, as well as the website, Godisopen.com.

Representing the Non-Open Theism position
Dan Chapa - A Southern Baptist and member of the Society of Evangelical Arminians. Dan has been a Sunday School/Youth Group teacher for many years, and frequent debate participant. He also runs a show with Turretinfan on YouTube, called "Conversations in Calvinism."

Dane van Eys - Ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and Pastor at Sango United Methodist Church. Dane's preaching can be viewed on his church's Facebook page at   / sangoumc  . His church website is https://www.sangoumc.org