ccount the following considerations: biblical examination, traditional views, systematic theology, philosophy, and practical implications. Each of these broad ideas constitutes the five chapters of its text.
             In the first chapter, Rice talks about support for a new perspective, the open view which I described. Rice also defines the competing view here as well, the traditional view. The traditional view takes on many forms, but the essence of the traditional view is that God's glory is the final purpose for which anything and everything happens. God is free from the confines of time and space, completely transcendent, and is personally unaffected by the actions of his created. He is immutable, impassible, and has total foreknowledge of the future, including every decision every person will ever make. In this view, nothing happens that is not in God's complete will. God foreknows what prayers his children will petition and has predetermined his response. He knows every thought, word, and action that every creature will ever
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