Hey friends, Alisa Childers here. Today we're going to continue our discussion with our guest

Tim Stratton on his view, Molinism, which seeks to resolve the tension between the biblical

concepts of predestination and human-free wealth. If you haven't listened to Part 1, I recommend

you listen to that first. And in a moment, we're going to pick up a right where we left off last week.

Well, let's just dive right into this idea of God's knowledge. There are three views of God's

knowledge. And I think it's important to just say at the outset that Calvinists, Armenians,

and Molinists, they all affirm that God is omniscient, that He is all knowing. But the disagreement

comes in how that is defined and how that knowledge actually works. And this is what actually sets

Molinism apart from the other views. So before you think this is some sort of Hogwarts, something we

learned in Hogwarts, or some sort of like pagan, New Age phrase, all three views are based on

theologians who sort of in their own way, we're trying to solve this problem. And we're going to

get into the history of all of that in a minute. But first, I just want to define what God's

knowledge is. And so Tim, I'll just ask you, what are the three different views of God's knowledge?

Okay, yeah. So we've got natural knowledge, middle knowledge, and free knowledge. If God is omniscient,

God possesses these three, what we call logical moments of knowledge, not necessarily chronological,

but their logical moments. So natural, middle, and free knowledge. So natural knowledge is simply

put that God knows everything that could happen. Okay? So free knowledge then is God knows everything

that will happen. And that's that's really a foreign knowledge. Right? God knows everything that will

happen. But God also, if he's omniscient, possesses middle knowledge. And he knows everything that

would happen if. So we got natural, middle, and free knowledge. That means that God knows everything

that could would and will happen. So God knows everything that could happen, everything that will

happen. And then everything that would happen if in different circumstances. So I like to say

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