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Things I liked and things that bugged me about “Noah”

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image via http://www.noahmovie.com/gallery I finally had a chance to go see Noah the other night and thought some might find a review helpful. Since this is a review of a movie and not a commentary on the biblical text, I’m setting aside all theological issues that surround this narrative, such…

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Four Blood Moons—What’s the Significance?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pju2kfU8unc The first of four successive “blood moons” will occur on April 15 & 16. Is this significant? Does it point to coming earth-shattering events specifically related to Israel? Many authors like John Hagee believe it does. Or is this misguided divination and astrology? What do you think Greg’s take…

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Greg on Hell

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What is your doctrine of hell? In this podcast, Greg will challenge your assumptions while he explains how his view of hell has evolved. He introduces his view, some of the objections to his view, and contrasts this view against the traditionalist and the universalist views. http://www.rethinkinghell.com/audio/podcast/Episode-60-Withdrawing-His-Sustaining-Hand-with-Greg-Boyd.mp3…

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How does an Open Theist explain all the prophecies fulfilled in the life of Jesus?

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…that his enemies, “gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink” (vs. 21). He’s not predicting anything in this passage. He’s simply complaining about how’s he’s been treated. There’s nothing remotely predictive about either passage. If Jesus hadn’t gone into Egypt and if…

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In the Aftermath of the AZ Anti-Gay Bill

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…political rights. … As Kingdom people we’re called to imitate the One who never exercised his free will outside the will of the Father. We’re called to surrender our freedom and submit our will to God’s will, both as he’s revealed it in Scripture and as he directs us by…

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The Risk of Love & the Source of Evil

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…is how all evil originates. The price of the possibility of love is freedom, and with freedom comes the possibility of evil. Though some Christians unfortunately think God’s will includes evil, the Bible depicts sin as evil precisely because it constitutes a rejection of God’s will. For example, Scripture says…

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Patio reflections on the free decisions of a spider

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…like). It holds that something like experience or consciousness is the common denominator of all things. I’ve been intrigued by it most of my adult life. What drives the philosophy, in my estimation, is the correct insight that all things must share SOMETHING in common. The traditional view is that…

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Old Testament Support for the Warfare Worldview

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Rebuking Hostile Waters Satan plays a minor role in the Old Testament relative to the New Testament. Instead, the warfare worldview in the Old Testament is expressed in terms of God’s conflict with hostile waters, cosmic monsters, and other gods.Like their Ancient Near Eastern neighbors, ancient Jews believed that the…

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A Brief Outline and Defense of the Open View

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…remain open? Many passages of Scripture depict God as foreknowing and/or predetermining certain things about the future. But there are also many passages that depict the future is open (not determined) and depict God as knowing it as a realm partly comprised of possibilities. Some examples of these Scriptures include:…

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How do you respond to Jeremiah 29:10–11?

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…things unfold, either on a national or on an individual level. The Bible is full of examples of God having plans which, to his great disappointment, do not come to pass, for they require the cooperation of free moral agents (e.g. Jer. 3:6–7, 19–20; 2 Pet. 3:9–10). This does not…

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Books I’m Currently Working On

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…I trace the themes of providence, fate, free will and evil in ancient Hellenistic philosophy and the early church. I hope to demonstrate the traditional Christian assumption that everything that comes to pass in history directly or indirectly reflects God’s will (what I call the blueprint world view) arises out…

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The Bible, Government and Christian Anarchy

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…all their trust in God have no need to place any trust in a human ruler. It’s also worth noting that this passage, and many others, reveals how misguided is the common attempt to justify Christians fighting in war on the basis of the violence of the Old Testament. God…

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A Cross-Centered Evaluation of Responses to Tragedy

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…mystery surrounding every particular event that comes to pass. (I flesh this out in Is God to Blame? (IVP, 2003) and, more thoroughly, in Satan and the Problem of Evil (IVP, 2001). Of course, Scripture teaches that Jesus’ death was predestined and thus foreknown from before creation, or at least…

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Resignation to Evil: Not an Option

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One lucky guy via Compfight While few Christians would deny that Satan is in some sense the ruler of this world, since it’s so clearly taught in the New Testament, many nevertheless insist that everything Satan and every other free agent does fits into a divine plan that is governing…

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Resisting Evil

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…bad things to happen. While few Christians would deny that Satan is in some sense the ruler of this world, since it’s so clearly taught in the New Testament, many nevertheless insist that everything Satan and every other free agent does fits into God’s divine plan that is governing every…

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What is the difference between “libertarian” and “compatibilistic” freedom?

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…their choices if there is no obstacle to their choosing what they want, even though what they want is completely determined by causes outside of themselves and even though their choices are completely determined by what they want. In other words, compatibilists believe that free will is compatible with determinism….

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The Open View of Messianic Prophesies

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…fact, however, these passages present no difficulty for the view of the future which is partly open. While the open view holds that humans must be free to the extent that they are capable of love, this freedom obviously has limits. Indeed, the concept of freedom is only meaningful against…

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A Brief Theology of Salvation

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…If we apply this to believers, then our salvation consists in being freed from a form of slavery. We are set free from slavery to sin and guilt (Rom 6:7) as well as from the law as a way of trying to acquire righteousness before God (Gal 2:16). But the…

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Kingdom Now

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…to manifest now. Whatever will be done away with on V-Day, we’re to be free of now. We, of course, aren’t to strive to do this on our own power. Nor are we to do this in order to gain God’s approval. Rather, we are called to put the coming…

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VII Christian Living

…1998) 2 J. Ellul, Money and Power (InterVarsity, 1984) 3 R. Foster, Freedom of Simplicity (Harper & Row, 1981) 2 S. Jethani, The Divine Commodity (Zondervan, 2009) 2 R. Sider, ed. Living More Simply (InterVarsity, 1980) 1 Community See also: III New Testament: New Testament Church V Theology: The Church…

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