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Repent! … From the Sin of Religion
Category: General
Tags: Judgment, Living in Love, Love, Religion, Religious Idolatry, Repenting of Religion, Servant
Topics: Following Jesus
…they have spilled advancing their causes and defending the correctness of their positions. It is found in the fact that they may systematically prevent people from experiencing the love and life of God as a free gift flowing to and through them. So long as one is trying to achieve…
Hearing God’s Voice and Discerning God’s Will
Category: General, Guest Contributor
…to. Use the notebook to write whatever thoughts you have during this time, whatever images come to mind, anything you feel or sense. No judgments, just write. God speaks to some people in thoughts, to some in pictures or visions, and to some in a gut-feeling kind of way. All…
How do I avoid feeling like God is absent?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
…and the open view of the future. This helped my wife and I deal with our tragedy, but over the last few years I’ve noticed a negative consequence. Because all free agents have “say so” and because of the innumerable complexity of variables that affect all that comes to pass,…
Tragedy Strikes and Coherence Goes Out the Window
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Problem of Evil, Responding to Calvinism, Theology
…good. In the words of one Sikh scholar, “[t]he Sikh does not perceive anything in the world as bad. Yes, there is tragedy and suffering – we feel it – [but] we don’t perceive it to be from evil.” This logical consistency is commendable. At the same time, however, we…
A Cross-Centered Evaluation of Responses to Tragedy
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Free Will, Predestination, Problem of Evil, Responding to Calvinism
…it’s my conviction that all of our thinking about God must be anchored in the crucified Christ. This is in fact the third conviction of the ReKnew Manifesto. The reason I believe this is that I have very compelling historical, philosophical and existential reasons for believing that Jesus is the…
The Risk of Love & the Source of Evil
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Love, Problem of Evil
…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…
The Full Meaning of Salvation
Category: General
Tags: Forgiveness, freedom, Salvation, Sin, Warfare Worldview
…forgiveness of sins” as well as a place among the community of God’s people. It’s clear that salvation includes forgiveness of sins, but it even more fundamentally includes freedom from Satan’s destructive grip. So too, Scripture teaches that salvation is about escaping “from the snare of the devil, having been…
When Our Images of God are Faulty
Category: General
Tags: Adam and Eve, Imagination, Picture of God, ReKnew
I’m fleshing out the third proclamation of the ReKnew Manifesto, which challenges us to rethink our conception of God. In the previous post I noted that, since our relationship with God is mediated through our mental picture of him, our image completely determines how we feel about God and what…
Do Angels and Demons Really Exist?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Angels, Demons, Evil, Free Will, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…are invited to give input to their Sovereign (see 1 Kings 22:20; Is 6:8). They collectively constitute a type of “heavenly counsel.” These gods never rival the Creator’s authority. Thus they are never construed as major competing deities. In sharp contrast to the Augustinian monopolizing view of divine sovereignty, the…
The (Spiritual) War on Terror
Category: General
Tags: Open Theism, Prayer, Warfare Worldview
…it (Ezek 22:30). Faith-filled prayer moves God to bless, and the lack of prayer hinders it (2 Chron 30:18-20; Lk 18:1-8). Faith-filled prayer empowers one to free other people from demons, while the lack of faith-filled prayer leaves these very people enslaved. In the midst of the spiritual war, things…
Ferguson, Racism, & the Kingdom
Category: General
Tags: Breaking Down Walls, Ferguson, Kingdom, Michael Brown, Myth of a Christian Religion, Racial Reconciliation, Racism, White Privilege
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
…is what is commonly known as white privilege. All of this means that, among other things, whites can move around freely and not bump into the walls that increasingly box people in who are located lower down the pyramid. And this is why, all other things being equal, whites have…
Old Testament Support for the Warfare Worldview
Category: Essays
Tags: Bible, Essay, Old Testament, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…through the nation of Egypt (Ps. 87:4; Isa. 30:7; cf. Ezek. 29:3; 32:2; Jere. 51:34). Thus, when Israel defeated an opponent this was sometimes construed as the Lord once again defeating cosmic forces of chaos (Isa. 17:12–14). When Yahweh freed the children of Israel from Egypt, for example, this was…
Racism: Why Whites have Trouble “Getting It”
Category: Essays
Tags: Diversity, Essay, Kingdom Living, Racism, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
…surprising, really, since America was founded (conquered) by Anglo-Europeans, and it has from the start been structured to their advantage. This is what is commonly known as white privilege. All of this means that, among other things, whites can move around freely and not bump into the walls that increasingly…
Should Christians really only use non-violent resistance to things like war/genocide?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Non-Violence
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence, Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
…who threaten us and our loved ones — so long as we are nice to our occasionally grumpy neighbors. Unfortunately, this commonsensical interpretation makes complete nonsense of Jesus’ teaching. The whole point of Jesus’ teaching is to tell disciples that their attitude toward “enemies” should be radically different from others….
Six Theses of the Warfare Worldview
Category: General
Tags: Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…experience with the war-zone reflected in the world around us. 1. Love Requires Freedom By definition, love must be freely chosen. We are able to program computers to obey our commands perfectly, but we don’t consider them “loving.” They lack the capacity for love because they have no choice but…
Get LIFE!
Category: General
Tags: Christian Life, Idolatry, Life, Life in Christ
New Life, Plant, Other We must always be aware of the fact that there is a constant lure toward idolatry in our demonically-oppressed world. It is profoundly easy to be getting all one’s LIFE from Christ and to be completely free of idols one day, but begin to be gripped…
What is Open Theism?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism What it is and is not
…pre-settled it. But the future is also open to whatever degree agents are free to resolve possibilities into actualities by their own choices. In the open view, God knows everything perfectly, including the future. But since the future is partly comprised of possibilities, God knows it as partly comprised of…
Resisting Evil
Category: General
Tags: God's Character, God's Will, Open Theism, Satan, Warfare Worldview
…of Satan’s will—and he resisted them. For example, when Jesus confronted a Jewish woman with a deformed back, he asked, “should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free …” (Lk 13:16, emphasis added)? This is what we consistently…
The Paradox of Plutarch and Early Christian Theology
Category: General
…second century A.D.). In this blog I’ll just give a brief overview of a few of his views and the paradox contained in them. In my next couple of blogs I’ll flesh this out by giving specifics. (This research, by the way, is in preparation for my forthcoming work [now…
A Brief Outline and Defense of the Open View
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Open Theism
Topics: Defending the Open View, Open Theism What it is and is not
…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:…