Introduction to Philosophy: Open verses Closed Theism about an "all knowing" God

Here we discover some of the interesting questions concerning Omniscience: “All knowing” (we will address before we explore Omnipotence, “all powerful” later because our recent discussion of free will is relevant here). What does it mean for God to be all knowing?

To be clear:

1. Open Theism: God knows all and only what can be known at a certain time, and this changes, it grows and God learns as God, for instances, discovers the realities created by our libertarian free choices.
2. Closed Theism: God has everlasting, perfect unchanging knowledge of everything that has ever happened, is happening and will ever happen. God does not learn. Does not discover. God is like a perfect, finished crystal as concerns God’s knowledge.

I don't impose a preference. Of course not. So: What do you think? What is God, even as a hypothetical, up against here?

Discussion question: Do you believe in the total/timeless knowledge position (knows everything about the past, present and future, closed theism) or growing-knowledge position, perhaps (but not limited to) libertarian freewill (open theism)? Why? Please explain in a brief paragraph. (Remember, one can take a position here even as an Atheist. For those who believe in God’s existence, or hypothetically might, which view makes more sense?)

Cheers~

Dr. Lee Basham