Podcast: If the Future is Open How Can We Know God Wins in the End?

How can prayer change God’s mind? July 20, 2012

You’ve argued that since God is all-good, he’s always doing the most he can do in every situation to bring about good. But you have also argued that prayer can change God’s mind. How are these two beliefs compatible?

Freedom in the Subatomic World February 23, 2013

   

What’s the significance of Isaiah 63:8-10? January 14, 2008

The Lord said (or “thought”) to himself, “Surely they are my people, chidren who will not deal falsely.” So, the text says, “He became their savior” (Isa. 63: 8). But “they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit.” So the Lord “became their enemy” (9-10). If the future is exhaustively settled from all eternity, how could…

Podcast: How Could Jesus Know Peter Would Deny Him Exactly 3 Times? November 22, 2016

Was the rooster in on it? Greg discusses the specificity of Jesus’ prophecy about Peter. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0076.mp3

An Omni-Resourceful God March 10, 2016

It is quite common for us to talk about the attributes of God as omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing) and omni-present (present everywhere), but what about God’s unlimited resourcefulness? Consider the story of Moses’ commission in Exodus 3 and 4. Here the Lord instructs Moses to tell the elders of Israel that the Lord has heard…

Is the open view the only view that is compatible with the Incarnation? January 15, 2008

Question: You have said that the Open view of God is the only view that squares with the Incarnation and the only view that truly exalts God’s greatness. On what basis do you say this? Answer: The revelation of God in the Incarnation is the ultimate expression of God’s willingness and ability to change that…