No, because Calvinism asserts that God has exhaustive, definite foreknowledge of all future events, which are part of His sovereign plan, not contingent on human choices.

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You're right that Calvinism does assert those things, but they are not found in this 1 Samuel text. In fact, this passage presents a scenario where God declares what would happen if Saul remained, yet Saul does not remain, meaning the future was not exhaustively settled. This directly challenges the idea of exhaustive, definite foreknowledge as understood in Calvinism. If God's knowledge of the future were entirely fixed, He would not state a conditional outcome that never comes to pass. Instead, this passage fits naturally within an Open Theist framework, where God knows all possibilities and responds dynamically.

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Open Theism, as illustrated by the 1 Samuel text, suggests that God's knowledge includes contingent outcomes based on human choices, challenging Calvinism's view of exhaustive, definite foreknowledge.