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An Odd Seminar And Interesting Debate
Category: General
…Paul Helseth represented the “omni-causal” view (Calvinism), William Lane Craig represented the “Middle Knowledge ” view (Molinism); I represented the “open” view (Open Theism), and Ron Highfield represented “the comprehensive supervision” view. The trouble is, no one had ever heard of the “comprehensive supervision” view! It turns out it’s the…
An Ancient Philosophical Mistake In The Debate About Open Theism
Category: General
…as a disagreement over the perfection of God’s knowledge. For example, they publish books with titles like How Much Does God Know? (Steven Roy) and What Does God Know and When Does He Know It? (Millard Erickson). They of course know open theists believe God always knows everything, so why…
God’s Favor, Not Vengeance
Category: General
Tags: Enemy Love, Forgiveness, Jesus, Justice, Love
Topics: Following Jesus
Jesus began his ministry with a brief sermon in his hometown synagogue. Quoting Isaiah 61, Jesus said, The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of…
IV Church History
…(Princeton University Press, 1988) 3 W. von Loewenich , Luther’s Theology of the Cross (Augsburg, 1967) 2 A. McGrath, Luther’s Theology of the Cross (Baker, 1985) 2 D. Minns, Irenaeus (Chapman, 1994) 1 Origen, On First Principles (Torchbook, 1966) 3 B. Pascal, Pensées (Penquin Books, rpt. 1975) 2 J. Rist,…
Why Does God’s Activity Seem So Arbitrary?
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Free Will, Jesus, Prayer, Problem of Evil
…our knowledge about God’s character and general purposes for our life. What we can hardly begin to fathom, however, is the vast complexity of creation, a creation that includes an untold number of human and spiritual free agents whose decisions affect much that comes to pass. This is not at…
God’s Being Sued!
Category: General
…blame for the horrors Chambers alleges, for he had to make humans and angels free if the world was going to be capable of genuine love. And free agents themselves, not God, are responsible for the way they use their freedom. Then, given this attorney’s New Testament track record, I…
The Argument from God’s Non-Violent Creational Ideal
Category: General
Topics: Creation Care
…Genesis 2 when the Lord tells Adam he was “free to eat from any tree in the garden” (vs. 16-17). Adam was not free to eat any of the animals. It seems, then, that the food chain in God’s ideal creation was non-carnivorous and non-violent. I have to, of course,…
The Risk of Love
Category: General
Tags: Creation, Free Will, freedom, God is Love, Trinity
…his command freely. And this, of course, means we can refuse to carry out his command if we choose. God gave Adam and Eve free will in the Garden. The purpose of this freedom was that they might choose to remain in loving union with God. But because it was…
The Magi and an Arbitrary Massacre
Category: General
Tags: Problem of Evil, Violence
…to him. The fact of the matter is that, to comprehensively understand why this Bethlehem couple lost their child on that gruesome night, we’d have to exhaustively understand every single variable, including every human and angelic free decision, extending back to the beginning of time that came to bear on…
The Emergent Self
Category: General
…see how a free mind/soul could emerge out of brain parts that are themselves completely devoid of mind and freedom, there is no problem seeing how a high-level free mind could emerge out of brain parts that are each low-level mind and exercise low-level freedom. Just a thought. Blessings, Greg…
Temporal Flow, Relativity Theory, and Open Theology
Category: General
…how every scenario science offers regarding the future of the universe leads to inevitable and complete doom. If there’s any hope, he argued, it’s in the Christian doctrine of resurrection. It was powerful. But the main topic for the day was what science has to say about the nature of…
Determinism Is Ugly (June 2007)
Category: General
…than one, as artist works illustrate. But our own free decisions reveal this as well. So do quantum particles. And so does every aspect of creation! There’s causation everywhere, but there’s also an element (however slight) of spontaneity everywhere. This dance of order and freedom, structure and spontaneity, is what…
Is God Good?
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, God, Nature of God, Picture of God, Problem of Evil
Andrew Stawarz via Compfight This reflection by David D. Flowers seemed like a good addition to Greg’s recent blogs on free will. Here David talks about the problem of evil and how it is that we can call God “good” in light of a world full of evil. He even…
Kingdom Centeredness
Category: Essays
Tags: Discipleship, Essay, Kingdom Living
Topics: Following Jesus
…is to be set free. Having found life, you don’t need to strive for life any longer. Having already died, you no longer fear loss or death. Having found the true Center, you are freed from your own petty self-centeredness. You are, therefore, finally freed to love. Having found ultimate…
Terror in the Night
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Fear, God, God's Love, Q&A, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…but I ask you to keep an open mind because I know from experience it really can completely set you free. I’ve suggested this to a dozen or so other people I’ve met over the years who have had experiences just like yours, and it has worked for them. First,…
Reviewing the Reviews: Tom Belt (Part 1)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Reviews, Tom Belt
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…fully aware of the “thorny problem” and “complexities” surrounding the issue of what particular books comprised the canon at the time of Jesus. Did Tom overlook this? I relegate this issue to a footnote and simply refer to relevant scholarly discussions because nothing hangs in the balance on how, if…
Dealing With Objections to Open Theism, Part I
Category: General
Tags: Across The Spectrum, God's Sovereignty, Objections to Open Theism, Omniscience, Open Theism
Topics: Open Theism
…including propositions about what future free agents will choose. In response, some Open Theists argue that future tensed propositions about what free agents will choose to do have no definite truth value until agents resolve their decisions one way or another. Other Open Theists, however, grant that God must know…
How do you respond to Matthew 26:36?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism
Verse: Matthew 26
…this point be free to refrain from denying Christ, he is still morally responsible for doing so since it was his own free decisions that formed his character in this way in the first place. Some have thought that Peter’s general bravado, and especially his cutting off the ear of…
Reinterpreting the Law, Violence and Nationalism of the OT
Category: General
Tags: Law, Nationalism, Old Testament, OT Violence
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
…to a covenant that was free of nationalism and free of violence. In short, if Jesus’ Incarnation, life and ministry, which culminates in the cross, reveals God’s true character and will, then we must understand everything that is contrary to this character and will in the covenant that leads up…
What is the significance of Deuteronomy 30:19?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism
Verse: Deuteronomy 30
…will and will not be actualized, then the purpose for every probation the Lord puts us through becomes clear. Love must be chosen; the outcome of free choices does not exist until the free choice is made; hence the Lord is finding out who will and will not choose love….