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How People Misunderstand Open Theism

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Open theism holds that, because agents are free, the future includes possibilities (what agents may and may not choose to do). Since God’s knowledge is perfect, open theists hold that God knows the future partly as a realm of…

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Podcast: If Our Names Have Been in the Book of Life Since Before Creation, Are We Still Free?

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Greg considers the documentation habits of the Lord.   http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0382.mp3

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Podcast: Will We Have Free Will in Heaven?

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Greg discusses the afterlife and the type of freedom we might have there. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0103.mp3

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God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense

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As the title suggests, in his book, God’s Problem: How The Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer, Bart Ehrman argues that the Bible has nothing compelling to say about…

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The Risk of Love

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The most basic and yet most profound teaching of the Bible is that “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8; 16). He is revealed to be a God who is triune—Father, Son and Holy Spirit (See…

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The Full Meaning of Salvation

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Many view salvation as a legal transaction, which means that it’s a mere acquittal from the consequences of sin. While forgiveness of our sin is certainly involved, the NT view of salvation goes far beyond…

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The Open View and Predestination

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Paul wrote in Ephesians, “For he [God] chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through…

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Isn’t the World Unsafe If God Doesn’t Control Everything?

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If God isn’t in control of everything, the world feels unsafe. If the future is open and if things can happen outside of God’s will, what guarantee is there that there is a point to…

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Lighten Up: Open Theism T-Shirt

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T-shirt on Zazzle designed by Jin_roh.

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The Future is Not Like the Past For God (or Us)

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Image by seier+seier via Flickr Everyone agrees that we are not free to change the past. No sane person would claim, for example, that I can now make any free choices about whether John F. Kennedy will…

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Why God Sometimes “Can’t”

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Greg continues his thoughts on sickness and spiritual warfare by addressing the question of why God “can’t” intervene in some circumstances of illness.

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Becoming Unbusy

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 ZeroOne via Compfight Joshua Becker posted A Helpful Guide to Becoming Unbusy that we thought was wonderful. If you’re finding yourself mindlessly going from one task to the next with no time to take a…

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