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The Risk of Creation

April 9, 2018

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…love others without also having the capacity to harm them. Potential to choose love requires the potential to choose its opposite. Therefore, our capacity to freely love one another must imply that, to some extent, we have the capacity to freely harm one another. This is the risk. We all…

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Why the 35W Bridge Collapsed – blog post 8/09/2007

January 10, 2008

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…free agents, the one being you don’t need to blame is God. If, on the other hand, you don’t accept that the cosmos is populated with free agents who can therefore make decisions that are contrary to God’s will, then you have an even greater problem. (This is the camp…

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Part 4 (of 15): Evaluating Peterson’s Faith

July 26, 2018

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…damaging to individuals and to society? More specifically, were the horrors of the twentieth century the direct result of westerners (allegedly) losing faith in God and in Judeo-Christian values? Which is to ask: Is Peterson’s pragmatic argument for believing in the essential goodness of Being compelling? As a committed Christian,…

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Part 11 (of 15): The Corruption of Creation

August 21, 2018

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…and the Corruption of Creation Satan’s remarkable stature is also reflected in his power to adversely affect nature, according to certain passages of the NT. For example, in the book of Hebrews Satan is said to hold the power of death (Heb 2:14 cf. Jn 8:44), and in Revelation he’s…

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Part 3: Disarming Flood’s Inadequate Conception of Biblical Authority

April 15, 2015

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…attitude of first-century Jews toward Scripture is reflected in the ancient rabbinic comment that, “[w]hatever book has been included in the Bible canon must necessarily have been inspired or written by the Holy Spirit (Meg. 7a; Tosef., Yad. ii. 14, cited in “Inspiration,” Jewish Encyclopedia, 12 vols., ed. C. Adler…

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Be the Change Now

September 11, 2014

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…collectively manifest what it looks like for humans to be completely free from all of the artificial ranking scales fallen humans impose on one another. When the whole of reality becomes the domain of God’s reign, as it was always intended to be, there will be no more violence, either…

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Free Will: How free will presupposes a great deal of determinism

January 30, 2013

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http://youtu.be/cwUbm7rhKHs This particular video was recorded last week when the forecast called for a high of -4F. Greg makes light of the freezing conditions before he settles into the topic of how a mostly determined world is actually the needed context for free will to operate. Stay warm out there!…

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Free Will: What about “natural” evil? Was Hurricane Sandy a Free Agent?

January 24, 2013

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What about natural evil? How does free will help to make sense of this? Greg reflects on the origins of sickness, natural disaster, animal suffering and so on. Hope you’re enjoying the series so far. There’s more to come!…

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If salvation depends on our free choice, how are we saved totally by grace?

February 12, 2019

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…are not isn’t that some choose to confess Christ while others don’t. It must rather be that the Holy Spirit empowers some and not others. And so I’ve come to accept that God chooses (elects) who will and will not be saved. You, of course, reject Calvinism and affirm free…

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Presentation of Book Outline

May 11, 2010

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I’ve been in a pretty intense manic-obsessive state the last few weeks, which is why I haven’t been blogging much. Mostly I’m obsessed with reading and writing for my book on Old Testament violence. I was going to title this Jesus Versus Jehovah, but I’m currently leaning toward The Crucifixion…

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Greg Boyd’s New Book Now Available

June 27, 2016

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https://youtu.be/w2sSMLH4XIo You will never see another book quite like this one. Filled with pictures and creative dialogue, this title wrestles with questions about how science and theology relate to each other so that we might better understand God and our world. This is the kind of book you will want…

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Free Will: The origin of evil

January 23, 2013

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In this continuing series on free will, Greg discusses how evil can only be accounted for if we acknowledge free will. This is especially true if you believe that God is good….

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Free Will: An Aesthetic Model

January 21, 2013

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Greg continues his thoughts on free will by offering an aesthetic model for free will. This one gets pretty philosophical, but it’s worth toughing it out….

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If God shouldn’t get blamed when free agents do evil, why should he be thanked when they do good?

April 21, 2011

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…good things happens, therefore, it’s often partly due to the fact that some free agents said “yes” to God’s good influence. But when evil happens, its always exclusively due to that fact that some free agents said “no” to God’s good influence.   So when evil things happen, its never…

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Love and Free Will

February 16, 2016

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…up a people who are capable of receiving and reflecting his love and carrying out his will “on earth as it is in heaven,” these people will have to have the potential to choose against love. The price of the possibility of love is freedom, and with freedom comes the…

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Why believe in free will? [Video]

July 17, 2012

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…they—along with John Wesley—believe that God does not control everything, but rather gives human beings free will. Interested in exploring this subject further? Check out some of Greg’s essays and Q&As on predestination and free will. Or even better, buy his book Is God to Blame? Video sourced via DeepCoffee….

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Paul Teaches Free Will, Not Determinism: Romans 9, Part 3

August 19, 2015

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…fourth. Argument #4: Paul’s Summary and Free Will A fourth argument that demonstrates the error of the deterministic interpretation of Romans 9 concerns Paul’s summary at the end of this chapter. Whenever we are struggling to understand a complex line of reasoning such as we find in Romans 9, it…

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Free Will in the Bible

November 23, 2015

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…If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the…

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How People Misunderstand Open Theism

June 18, 2019

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…content of the reality God perfectly knows. It comes down to the question of whether or not possibilities are real. I’m always puzzled as to why many defenders of the classical theism spin the debate with open theists as a disagreement over the perfection of God’s knowledge. For example, they…

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Q&A: If Salvation Depends on our Free Choice, How are we Saved by Grace?

September 19, 2012

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…must rather be that the Holy Spirit empowers some and not others. And so I’ve come to accept that God chooses (elects) who will and will not be saved. You, of course, reject Calvinism and affirm free will. So I’m wondering, how can you affirm that humans are saved totally…

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