Open Theism also called openness and the open view is a theological position dealing with human free will and its relationship to God and the nature of the future. It is the teaching that God has granted to humanity free will and that in order for the free will to be truly free that the future free will choices of individuals cannot be known ahead of time by God.

Open Theists hold that if God knows what we are going to choose, then how can we be truly free when it is time to make those choices–since a counter choice cannot then be made by us because it is already “known” what we are going to do. In other words, we would not actually be able to make a contrary choice to what God “knows” we will choose thus implying that we would not then be free.

See the section on Open Theism