Richard Watson defense against Open theism
Open theism a view which says God can't know the future contingents infallible. Some Christian's view this as a viable option because LFW is the only way to have moral responsibility but no Christian should accept open theism. Since this view comes from Socinians and there are answers to reconcile libertarian free will (LFW) and God's infallible knowledge of future contingents. Orthodox Arminians have gave answers to the objections that the follower's of Socinus and Calvinist. The standard objection is this "that the foreknowledge of contingent events, being in its own nature impossible, because it implies a contradiction." In simple terms God knowing future contingents infallible make them necessary so the Arminian view is no different than the Calvinist. But Richard Watson a great 19th century Methodist theologian in his Theological Institutes gave a great answer to this objection. Watson makes a very important point that has to always be kept