Are There Things God Cannot Do? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Attributes and Character
Greg considers transformed bodies. Episode 1089 __ __ __ https://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_1089.mp3
What Does a Perfect God Look Like?
Category: General
Tags: Attributes of God, Classical Theism, God, Jesus, Open Theism
Topics: Attributes and Character
The “classical view of God” refers to the view of God that has dominated Christian theology since the earliest Church fathers. According to this theology, God is completely “immutable.” This means that God’s being and…
Does God Act Arbitrarily and Immorally? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Attributes and Character
Greg diagnosis America, and the prognosis doesn’t look good. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0801.mp3
Why Did an All-Knowing God Ask Adam & Eve If They Ate the Fruit? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Attributes and Character
Greg & Dan set the tone for reading the Genesis story. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0792.mp3
Did God Will Animal Sacrifices? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Attributes and Character, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Greg talks about sacrifice in the Old Testament and the role of Jesus as the perfect sacrifice. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0790.mp3
Does God Will ANY Suffering at All? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Open Theism, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
Greg talks about suffering for different things and God’s will for our suffering. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0788.mp3
Thus Says the Lord? Really? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
From God’s own mouth… Greg defends God in the face of violent portraits of God attributed to God. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0780.mp3
Does God Still Accommodate Sin? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Attributes and Character, Sin
Greg talks accommodation in this confessional episode. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0776.mp3
How Can Free Will Make a Difference in the Midst of So Many Variables? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will
The mystery of the complexity of this world. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0774.mp3
Why Call God She in Your Book But Not in Your Sermons? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Attributes and Character
Greg explains his use of gender in his descriptions of God. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0773.mp3
Does God Show Favoritism? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Attributes and Character
Greg and Dan consider God’s focused revelation. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0770.mp3
Is the God of Calvinism Meaningfully Different that the God of Arminianism? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will
Greg examines predestination and foreknowledge, and defends a holy God. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0769.mp3
If God Annihilates Us, Doesn’t God then Kill? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Greg distinguishes death from murder, annihilation from non-existence. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0751.mp3
What Does God Love About Humans? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will
Dan Kent and Curtis Holtzen discuss a God who trusts people, and the profound implications of God’s love for each of us. Watch the FULL interview on Patreon. Curtis’s new book: The God Who Trusts…
The Logical Hexagon Made Simple
Category: Essays, General
Tags: Free Will, Open Future, Open Theism, Philosophy
Topics: Defending the Open View, Free Will and the Future, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
by: Greg Boyd The Hexagaon in a Nutshell For those of you who don’t have the twenty to thirty minutes it will probably take to read this essay but who nevertheless would like to have…
Inspired Imperfection
Topics: Biblical Reliability, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
In Inspired Imperfection, Gregory A. Boyd adds another counterintuitive and provocative thesis to his corpus. While conservative scholars and pastors have struggled for years to show that the Bible is without errors, Boyd considers this…
Why Did God Require Animal Sacrifice in the Old Testament?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Animal Sacrifice, Atonement, Christus Victor, Forgiveness, God, God's Wrath, Satan
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Question: I have a question about the atonement. Why did YHWH in the OT demand that people sacrifice animals? And if these sacrifices anticipated the ultimate sacrifice of the Messiah, as the author of Hebrews…
That Weird Episode with the Pigs
Category: General
Tags: Demons, God's Character, Jesus, Non-Violence, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Creation Care, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
In my opinion, the single strangest episode recounted in the Gospels is the account of Jesus’ encounter with a demonized man that ended with two thousand pigs drowning themselves in the Sea of Galilee (Mk…
What Does It Mean that God Hardens Hearts?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Choice, Determinism, Free Will, Is God to Blame?, Open Theism, Predestination
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Some argue that passages which speak of God hardening human hearts (Jos 11:19-20; Ex 7:3; 10:1; Rom 9:18) demonstrate that God controls everything, including people resistant to this declared intentions. He hardens whomever he wills,…
If salvation depends on our free choice, how are we saved totally by grace?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Free Will, Grace, Predestination, Q&A, Salvation, The Holy Spirit
Topics: Death and Salvation, Providence, Predestination and Free Will, Trinity
Question: I’m an Arminian-turned-Calvinist, and the thing that turned me was the realization that if salvation hinges on whether individuals choose to be saved or not, as Arminians and Open Theists believe, then we can’t…