God does not predict the future.

God does not predict the future.  He has already experienced it.  (This truth was applied on the TV show "Fringe" to "The Observers," on the episode "Forced Perspective?")

I thought about this.  The usual thoughts.  Free will.  God's sovereignty.  Etc.

Conclusions?

Yes.

On the night that Jesus was betrayed, He "predicted" the Apostle Peter's denial, and told Peter the prediction: that before a rooster crowed, Peter would deny Jesus three times.  Peter denied the Lord's prediction of his denial.   Was Peter destined to fulfill the prediction?  I don't believe so.

I am free right now to type or stop typing.  God has already experienced this.  But I find no contradiction in God's experience because of the perfect intimacy in which God knows me.  I see it like this.

God sees me, or "perceives my thoughts from afar," as David says in Psalms 139.  Again, David says,

"You have searched me and known me.  You know my going out and coming in....Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely."

To experience what I will say or think in the future is to experience the totality of what I am saying right now, and thus of what I said yesterday.  In other words, who I am now expresses who I was and who I will be.  If I am fixed in my intention, then you, the reader, are experiencing my future, right now, as I write.  Yet God's experience of me is perfect, infinite, and eternal.   What seems a prediction for you and me, being of time and space, is really perfect intimacy for God.

Of course I'm not saying I've got God all figured out, and that there is no mystery for me as far as the Deity goes.  I'm saying I can "feel God" on the future thing,  to a certain extent, though I can't explain it.

Let's go back to Peter.  If Peter's wife, for example, heard Peter's conversation with the Lord that night, assuming she had an intimate knowledge of her husband, she could have said something like this,

"Peter, I feel like you have very good intentions, but I also get the feeling that you are not as resolved to die for Jesus as you think.  In fact I get the feeling that if it came down to it, you might actually deny Jesus emphatically!"  

Now Peter may have very well become angry with his wife's intuition, denying what she sensed with intensity.

Now apply this the Lord's perfect and intimate connection to Peter.  I don't see it as Jesus "reading Peter's mind."  I don't see this "looking into the future" thing that we do. I see Jesus knowing Peter perfectly, AND EVERYONE ELSE INVOLVED, INCLUDING THE ROOSTER THAT WOULD CROW THREE TIMES!

Intimate knowledge.  Perfectly all knowing intimacy.  Not this kind of scientific informational "fortune telling."  God's omniscience encompasses the all knowingness of "predicting the future" with 100% accuracy, but I believe it is in the context of intimacy, not mere information.  

What are you thinking?