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Why? The Question That Cannot Be Answered
Category: General
Tags: Complexity, Mystery, Problem of Evil, Theodicy
Topics: The Problem of Evil
…knowledge of all the factors that influenced all the drivers on the freeway that day, driving the exact speed they were driving. We have not yet arrived at the initial conditions explaining the eight-second interval, however, for one cannot exhaustively understand the behavior of any driver on the freeway on…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
The Case for Including Open Theism Within Arminianism
Category: Essays
Tags: Arminianism, Essay, Open Theism, Roger Olson
Topics: Open Theism
…out consistently, core Arminian convictions, as well as a wealth of biblical material, implies that the future includes unsettled possibilities that will only become settled facts – and thus known by God as settled facts – when free agents transition them into facts by their free decisions. Silvio via Compfight…
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…
In the Aftermath of the AZ Anti-Gay Bill
Category: General
…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…
How does an Open Theist explain all the prophecies fulfilled in the life of Jesus?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Responding to Objections
Question: Throughout the Gospels it says that Jesus “fulfilled that which was written.” Some of these prophecies are very specific and involve free decisions of people. For example, a guard freely chose to give Jesus vinegar instead of water (Jn 19:28), yet John says this was prophesied in the Old…
Part 16 (of 19): The Archetypal Christ
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “Christ’s archetypal death exists as an example of how to accept finitude, betrayal and tyranny heroically – how to walk with God despite the tragedy of self-conscious knowledge – and not as a directive to victimize ourselves in the service to others.” Jordan…
The Cosmic Scope of Spiritual Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Angels, Demons, Evil, Kingdom Living, Satan, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross” (Col. 1:19-20, emphasis added). Similarly, Paul says the whole creation has from time immemorial been groaning to be “liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God” (Rom. 8:21). One can…