Surely there’s a different between God’s determining of the future and his knowing it isn’t there? No. There is not. Biblically there is no difference. In fact, merely knowing the future at least from a theological point of view is irrelevant. When scripture affirms that God knows what the future will be it means nothing less than He has decided, ordered, and ordained the future. God’s knowledge of the future, means that the future is sure. If that weren’t the case, that he knows the future in the sense that it’s sure, no one would care if God knew the future or not. Does that make sense? I know I am kind of arguing with the Arminian tradition here but that tradition will affirm just at strongly as I will that God knows the future. Ok, why do you care if it’s not that he secures the future, that he promises the future? It really doesn’t matter if God knows it or not. So I agree with Pinnock that God’s knowing the future makes the future absolutely certain.-Dr. Michael Williams, Professor, Covenant Theological Seminary
From his lecture #16 of the class, God and His Word
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