On the contrary, Nby. It is those who say that God doesn't know who are the first kin of the open theists.
If Boettner is saying that God does not have independent total prescience, then Boettner, too, is calling into question the omniscience of God.
If I say that God only knows the future because He has planned the future, then I have made knowledge dependent on power, and AT LEAST called into question its independent existence.
So by establishing that God DOES know, Open Theism is toast. I think that we can agree that, given God being Omnipotent, He therefore DOES have complete and perfect Foreknowledge. His Omnipotence is pretty much a given, is it not? I, for one, can't see how anyone could say they believe in God and not believe in His Omnipotence.
If Boettner is saying that God does not have independent total prescience, then Boettner, too, is calling into question the omniscience of God.
This statement puzzles me. Perhaps I'm not understanding what you're getting at. "Independent Total Prescience"? What God knows, He knows completely and totally. Are you saying that "Knowledge" is something that exists apart from God?? How could that be? Since by His Omnipotence He called the Creation into existence, it follows that he knows everything about it, down to the smallest detail. It follows then that His Knowledge of the working of His Creation is also absolute.
If I say that God only knows the future because He has planned the future, then I have made knowledge dependent on power, and AT LEAST called into question its independent existence.
Once again, are you saying that Knowledge has an existence separate from God? When Knowledge is spoken of this way, it is an abstract concept. God is not abstract. His Knowledge is not abstract either, but specific. Can He know something that doesn't exist? Yes, because He can call into existence things that don't exist. To do so involves the power to create, and the knowledge of what it is He wants to create. Anything else is random, and randomness is entropy.
As I see it, you're still trying to make room for that autonomous free will that you're so certain you possess.