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1/4. I just listened to N. T. Wright's podcast where he was asked about Open Theism & learned some amazing facts (sarc).
1. God is in time waiting to see what we do next before deciding his next step.
2. God took a big risk in creating free human beings.
1. God is in time waiting to see what we do next before deciding his next step.
2. God took a big risk in creating free human beings.
2/4. Cont.
3. The alternative to Open Th. is a kind of mechanical system where God directly causes everything & creatures have no free will at all.
4. The statement "God cooperates with creatures" means that he causes some things but not others. Causation is all or nothing.
3. The alternative to Open Th. is a kind of mechanical system where God directly causes everything & creatures have no free will at all.
4. The statement "God cooperates with creatures" means that he causes some things but not others. Causation is all or nothing.
3/4. Evaluation:
Either he does not understand basic theol. at all or he is advocating for some sort of relational theism w/o coming right out & saying so. His understanding of Reformed theol. is a cheap caricature & he shows no awareness of the danger of theistic personalism.
Either he does not understand basic theol. at all or he is advocating for some sort of relational theism w/o coming right out & saying so. His understanding of Reformed theol. is a cheap caricature & he shows no awareness of the danger of theistic personalism.
4/4. I'm not expecting a 500 page theological treatise on a podcast. But he said Open Th. is one side & Calvinism is the other extreme & so we should go down the middle. He could have said, OT & Fatalism are the 2 extremes & Calvinism is the middle path. Is that too much to ask?
