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What God Doesn’t Know (According to W.L.Craig)

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Hello bloggers. Here’s Part II of my response to Bill Craig’s podcast critique of the open model of providence. As I see it, the central difference between Craig’s position (Molinism) and my own (open theism) boils down to our different assessments of futurity. As I noted in my previous blog,…

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Open Theism and the Nature of the Future

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…not happen, but must also be described in terms of what may and may not happen. The future, in other words, is partly open. The thesis is defended against a number of possible philosophical objections. Click here to download this essay: Open Theism, Omniscience, and the Nature of the Future…

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Podcast: Does the Cruciform Hermeneutic Sabotage Open Theism?

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Greg plays Peek-a-Boo with God and considers whether those verses Open Theists use to support Open Theism might simply be times when God is accommodating for us. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0236.mp3…

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My Car Crash and the Open View

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…to e-mail or tweet questions regarding how I process this accident from an open theistic perspective, so I thought I’d address one of these questions in this blog. Several people wondered if I believed that Shelley and I could have perhaps avoided this crash had we prayed for protection (if…

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Has Your Confidence in Open Theism Changed? (podcast)

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Greg discusses the evolution of his open theism. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0815.mp3…

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Support for Open Theism from Science and Experience

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I have discussed the scriptural support that depicts the future as partially open and that God knows it as such. I do this in God of the Possible. If a position is true, every avenue of reflection ought to point in its direction, including science. What follows are two more…

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Intelligent Design and Intelligent Anti-Design

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…So, Dr. Stein embraced a form of theism known as Process Theism. Process Theism says that God is forever evolving along with the world. God didn’t create the world ex nihilo, and so never exercises unilateral control over the world. But God INFLUENCES the world, moment-by-moment, steering it as best…

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Revelation 13:8 refers to “everyone whose names have not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life.” How does that square with open theism?

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Three possibilities exist in terms of reconciling Revelation 13:8 with open theism. 1) First, the “from the foundation of the world” clause can attach to either “everyone whose names have not been written” or to “the lamb that was slain.” For example, the TNIV translates this passage “All inhabitants of…

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What If Open Theism is Not True? What Would Be the Practical Implications?

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In this episode Greg talks about what the practical implication would be if Open Theism is not true. Our favorite quote from this episode: “There is no way to live as if we are predestined.” http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0010.mp3…

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Podcast: Is Open Theism Growing in the World?

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Greg discusses the place of Open Theism in contemporary Christianity. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0149.mp3…

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Podcast: What is the Difference Between Open Theism and Process Thought?

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Greg openly processes the major differences between Open Theism and Process Thought. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0218.mp3…

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Which Church Fathers Held to Open Theism? (podcast)

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Greg considers the historical depth of open theism. Episode 560 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0560.mp3…

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Is Open Theism Good Enough? (podcast)

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Greg talks theology, open theism, and the problem of evil. Episode 942 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0942.mp3…

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Can I Believe in Both: Divine Simplicity and Open Theism?

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Greg tries to keep open theism simple. Episode 1013 __ __ __ https://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_1013.mp3…

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Open Theism in the Abstract: The Joshua Rasmussen Conversation (podcast)

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Dan Kent and the Surprising God Think Tank chat with Joshua Rasmussen about God, the ground of all being, open theism, consiousness, and a whole lot more. YOU can join the next conversation. Sign up at SurprisingGod.com! Check out Joshua’s book here: How Reason Can Lead to God Joshua’s Website:…

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When God Needs an Intercessor

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In the previous two posts, we have been exploring biblical narratives that point to how God’s knowledge is temporally conditioned and thus supports an open view of the future, or open theism as it is commonly called. The first addressed how God regrets and the second how God discovers. In…

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A Meeting With the Grand Master

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…say that God creates a world comprised of possibilities, and that he knows it just as it is precisely because God has unlimited omniscience. The point is that, despite his open theism, Polkinghorne seems to yet have a vestige of the old classical view of the future ‘out there’ as…

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Is the open view the only view that is compatible with the Incarnation?

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Question: You have said that the Open view of God is the only view that squares with the Incarnation and the only view that truly exalts God’s greatness. On what basis do you say this? Answer: The revelation of God in the Incarnation is the ultimate expression of God’s willingness…

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Five Brief Philosophical Arguments for the Open View

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…while affirming self-determination is undermined. Unless the future is to some degree ontologically (not just epistemologically) open (viz. partly constituted by indefinite possibilities) then agents can’t turn possibilities into actualities and thus posess self-determination. Despite protests to the contrary, I do not see that classical-philosophical theism allows for real possibilities….

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The Open View and Radical Suffering

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Jessica Kelley spoke at Open2013 this morning, sharing her journey with tenderness and authority. Jessica began wrestling with her view of God a couple of years ago and embraced Open Theism prior to the diagnosis and eventual death of her four-year-old son, Henry. Everyone here at the conference was profoundly…

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