As said here multiple times, prophesies do raises compelling questions about divine knowledge and communication, human language, the nature of time, and human freedom.
Let’s say that a future event is contingent if and only if it may or may not happen. Now imagine that based upon the revelation of an infallible God, aperson prophecies that some future contingent event will occur. SinceGod cannot be wrong, does it follow that the future contingent eventmust occur? And if it must occur, how can it be a contingentevent?
Obviously that it cannot be a contingent event because it has to happen. So, if the future is already written, which implies determinism.
Jesus reportedly prophesied that his disciplePeter would deny him three times before the cock crowed (see Matthew26:34). Typically, we would think of Peter’s denial as a free act, andhence as contingent. But since Jesus cannot be mistaken how are Peter’s later denials free?
