Future
How Much of the Future is Settled? How Much is Open? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Free Will, Future, Omniscience, Open Future, Open Theism
Greg considers the mathematical nature of determinacy. Episode 566 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0566.mp3
How People Misunderstand Open Theism
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Divine Foreknowledge, Free Will, freedom, Future, Open Future, Open Theism
Topics: Free Will and the Future, Open Theism What it is and is not
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…
Podcast: Is it a Sin to Download Someone’s Consciousness?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Future, Technology
Greg and Dan make a last ditch effort to save humanity from the rise of the robots. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0327.mp3
Podcast: Defending the Manifesto (6 of 10)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Future, Molinism, Open Future, Open Theism
Greg responds to challenges by William Lane Craig from Craig’s podcast “Reasonable Faith.“ Greg denies Molinism and discusses the logic of possibility. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0061.mp3
When God Regrets
Category: General
Tags: Divine Foreknowledge, Free Will, Future
Topics: Open Theism
The openness of the future is illustrated in the Bible’s depictions of God as grieving the outcome of decisions he himself has made. Regarding the incredible wickedness of humanity before Noah, for example, we read,…
Lighten Up: A Letter to the Future
Category: Lighten Up
Tags: Dance, Future, Kid President, Kindness, Lighten Up, Optimism
Because Kid President is awesome.
What Unfulfilled Prophesies Say About the Open View
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Future, Goldingay, Open Theism, Prophesy
Topics: Open Theism
Image by Lori Greig via Flickr Yesterday, we posted about how Messianic prophesies are understood in the open view of the future. Today, this post will look at prophesies that are not fulfilled in the way predicted…
Problems with the Simple Foreknowledge View
Category: General
Tags: Arminianism, Calvinism, Future, God, Open Theism, Satan and the Problem of Evil
Topics: Open Theism
Some have proposed a model of divine foreknowledge which allows them to avoid the dilemma of affirming either that God creates people for the purpose of sending them to hell (Calvinism) or that he creates…
To What Extent is the Future Open to Real Possibilities?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Choice, Free Will, Future, Judgment, Open Theism
Topics: Free Will and the Future
We frequently get questions about the extent to which the future is composed of actual possibilities rather than settled or determined. Here’s what Greg has to say in response to these questions: 1. We can…
The Future is Not Like the Past For God (or Us)
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, freedom, Future, God of the Possible, Open Theism, Possibility
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will
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…
Living Into the Future
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Free Will, Future, Love, Open Theism, Video, Warfare Worldview, Work of the People
Topics: Open Theism, Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Why didn’t God create a “perfect world”? Here’s Greg’s response to that question. See more at The Work of the People.
Does The Open View Limit God?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Calvinism, Divine Foreknowledge, Future, God of the Possible, Open Theism
Topics: Attributes and Character, Responding to Objections
Suppose you and I both agree that God is omniscient and thus knows all of reality, but we disagree over, say, the number of trees on a certain plot of land. I say there are…