Is God a Narcissist in Calvinism ?

You have no specific verses that say God does not know all the future as settled. I have none that specifically says He knows all the possibilities of the future exhaustively. God test man many times in scripture and gives them the option of 2 possibilities whether they choose to obey or disobey. God has not locked in mans choices and decision making as taught by the determinist/calvinist.

So your yes or no question doesn't answer the biblical narrative. God knows reality as it is hence God is Omniscient. Since God over and over gives mankind choices there are 2 paths/roads they can go down depending upon their decisions. God over and over said He would do a certain thing if they did x,y,z yet withheld the disaster from happening many times. Other times the calamity happened.

Fulfilled prophecy is another example of Gods omniscience. But not everything that happens in history or the future is predetermined like prophecy.

You put God into a nice little deterministic box. God is much more than that little box. The fact that God gives man choices to make, roads to go down that can have various outcomes shows the future in not determined/fixed as taught by the calvinist.

I can still hold to God being all knowing just not in the same sense as you believe.

hope this helps !!!
He declares the end from the beginning.

God knows reality but not the future right? Thats not omniscient. Now your trying to change the definition. Typical.

You cannot claim He is all knowing yet some things He does not know. LOL civic is a Open Theist. Slippery out there eh?

So you deny God's omniscience. Did Christ love you at the cross? Did He know you would exist?
 
He declares the end from the beginning.

God knows reality but not the future right? Thats not omniscient. Now your trying to change the definition. Typical.

You cannot claim He is all knowing yet some things He does not know. LOL civic is a Open Theist. Slippery out there eh?

So you deny God's omniscience. Did Christ love you at the cross? Did He know you would exist?
does scripture say God declares the end from the beginning with everything ?
 
He declares the end from the beginning.
There is a big difference between knowing everything that will happen and causing everything to happen, determinism.

If that is Gods sovereignty rightly defined then God causes men to do evil.
James 1:13,
- let no man say when he is tempted I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth He any man

James says God does not cause, produce or entice evil

Evil is not a created substance.
Evil originates when mankind who have been given free moral agency choose to disobey Gods commands.

God permits evil for a time but He is not the cause of it.

Isaiah 45:7,
- I(God) make peace and create evil

Hebrew word means,
Calamity
Disaster
Judgment

Any English Bibles that use the word evil is poor choice of English word.
The Hebrew does not mean God creates evil.
 
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